Database Blog
Top Oracle Database Security Threats Come from the Inside
Your Oracle databases contain some of your company’s most valuable assets: financial data, customer data, intellectual property, corporate secrets and so on. That means they’ll be among the top targets of cybercriminals—both outside and inside the firewall. The fact...
Should You Outsource Oracle Database Patching and Upgrades?
Upgrades and patches are a primary cause of planned downtime for Oracle databases and the applications that rely on them. Therefore, you need to have a strategy and process for your Oracle database upgrades that minimizes business disruption but does not postpone...
3 Oracle DBA Strategic Responsibilities to Outsource for Maximum Business Value
Many organizations have limited their Oracle DBA outsourcing to tactical/operational functions like monitoring, backup and patching. But the changing technology landscape is transforming the DBA role and requiring greater expertise. Today’s enterprise data stores are...
Is Your Oracle DBA a Big Data DBA? 3 Key Skills Can Help.
Does your organization have key Oracle DBA skills that can help you to derive value from big data? And what is “big data” anyhow? Does it just relate to big (like petabyte-sized) databases? Or is there more to it? Besides being simply “big,” big data has two other key...
Financial Services Spotlight: Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting
The finance, risk and compliance departments of any financial services firm all need fast and comprehensive access to business data in order to measure performance, manage risk and report to regulators and clients. But each department needs a specific view, whether...
MySQL Fabric: The Best of NoSQL and Relational Databases
Oracle Corp. is currently the world’s second-largest software vendor—and it isn’t going to let a little thing like unstructured data stand in its way. With the recent release of its MySQL Fabric technology, which is meant to meet the demands of cloud- and web-based...
Does Big Data Make Oracle DBAs Irrelevant—or Irreplaceable?
Profiting from big data means changing how your organization views data. Big data is often unstructured, and wringing value from it demands advanced analytics. Does this mean that conventional Oracle DBAs, with their relational database focus, are irrelevant in this...
5 Reasons—Besides Cost—to Outsource Your Oracle DBA
Even in this “age of outsourcing,” Oracle database administration (DBA) outsourcing is still often overlooked. Despite some predictions to the contrary the overall percentage of organizations outsourcing their DBA has remained relatively small and stable in recent...
Privileges missing after Oracle full import
While performing a migration from Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g (on new hardware) recently, we encountered a familiar frustration that I am surprised is not resolved yet. There are multiple ways to migrate a database from one version to another. One of the oldest and...
Oracle In-memory Database—Speed and Simplicity Meet Up. Have you tried it out yet?
One of the major announcements Oracle made during the Open World was the launch of Oracle In Memory Database Option. The In-Memory option to Oracle Database 12c is 100 percent compatible with existing applications and leverages all existing Oracle Database...