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Oracle 21c

How to quickly download the new bunch of 21c Oracle Database documentation?

Last month, Oracle released its new 21c version of the database documentation. At that time, I was looking for a quick mean to get all the books of this so-called 21c Innovation Release. I could remember I used a script to get them all in one run. Quick look at google, remembered me I used the one from Christian Antognini… 

Oracle 21c Security : Mandatory Profile

By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 21c, it is now possible to enforce a password policy (length, number of digits…) for all pluggable databases or for specific pluggable databases via profiles. This is done by creating a mandatory profile in the root CDB and this profile will be attached to corresponding PDBs. The mandatory profile is a generic profile that can… 

Oracle 21c Security : Gradual Database Password Rollover

By Mouhamadou Diaw Starting with Oracle 21c, a password of an application can be changed without having to schedule a downtime. This can be done by using the new profile parameter PASSWORD_ROLLOVER_TIME This will set a rollover period of time where the application can log in using either the old password or the new password. With this enhancement, an administrator… 

Oracle 21c Security : ORA_STIG_PROFILE and ORA_CIS_PROFILE

By Mouhamadou Diaw In my previous blog I was testing the creation of a new Oracle 21c database. In this blog I am talking about two changes about the security. In each new release Oracle strengthens security. That’s why since Oracle 12.2, to meet Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) compliance, Oracle Database provided the profile ORA_STIG_PROFILE With Oracle 21c the… 

Oracle 21c : Create a New Database

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 21c is now released on the cloud. And in this blog I am just testing my first database creation . As earlier release dbca is still present. Just launch it 1 [oracle@oraadserver admin]$ dbca After The creation some query to verify 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15…