Ruby enthusiast and friend of the ‘Lab Raimonds Simanovskis (@rsim) just released a maintenance update to his ActiveRecord oracle-enhanced-adapter, bringing it to version 1.2.4.
This will be the final version of the adapter for Rails 2, after which he’ll move it to Rails 3.
Last month, he updated ruby-plsql.
As you know, we’re big fans of Ruby in [...]
I’m taking some time off at the moment (back next week, no worries) but things still land in my inbox, and I can’t help but look at them and sometimes process them… So when a couple of classic OWB implementations showed up in press releases this week, I figured I had to share them with [...]
We all know data represents one of the most valuable assets in any organization today, making databases the primary target of attacks for bad guys. The SANS Internet Storm Center sees hundreds of thousands of hack attempts against Oracle databases each month. And this typically does not account for increasing attacks by insiders with access, [...]
I’m taking some time off at the moment (back next week, no worries) but things still land in my inbox, and I can’t help but look at them and sometimes process them… So when a couple of classic OWB implementations showed up in press releases this week, I figured I had to share them with [...]
Earlier this week, friend of the ‘Lab Raimonds Simanovskis (@rsim) released ruby-plsql 0.4.0, which includes support for several complex Oracle datatypes and added some basic table and sequence operations for unit testing.
As you know, we’re big fans of Ruby in all its incarnations, and if you’re an Oracle developer, you know PL/SQL. So, the great [...]
Now available, Oracle Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2 is designed to help organizations secure all their enterprise databases and address regulatory requirements. This latest release of Oracle Audit Vault introduces key new reporting and alerting capabilities to further automate the database audit process and help reduce costs. New features include:
Report scheduling, notification, attestation, and archiving capabilities [...]
This morning, our long time partner Zend issued a press release announcing how we are working together to make PHP/Zend Server more integrated with Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Zend Server is a complete, Oracle-enabled, enterprise-ready Web appication Server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security. Connectivity to Oracle [...]
CIO Insight put together this great security slideshow: 10 Things the Security Auditor Saw based on Deloitte’s 6th Annual Global Security Survey discussing the top priorities and problems revealed by internal and external audits.
Top on the list was excessive access rights. Often times organizations grant individuals or applications access to more information then they really [...]
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July 2009 was released on July 14th, 2009. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.
More Info: Supported Products and Components Affected
Includes Patch Advisory also for Oracle BEA – WebLogic server, JRockit, Oracle Complex Event Processing and WebLogic Event Server
Related links:
Identify Vulnerability and Patch in [...]
 
In this ROI study published by Telstra and Mainstay Partners, learn how System Automation has freed up administrators time previously spent developing and managing homegrown scripts.
Through Oracle Enterprise Manager Release 2, Telstra is now able to take advantage of provisioning features that deploy and provision Oracle databases in Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and [...]