by Willie Gray | Mar 18, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Patch News, database patching, Database Security, Oracle, SQL Server
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
by Willie Gray | Mar 15, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
It was very cold and early on a Monday morning when I received a call from one of my fellow system administrators. He reported that one of our production databases would not come back online after the server hosting the database was restarted. Most DBAs would start...
by Scott Loudon | Feb 16, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Patch News, database patching, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, SQL Server
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
by Robert Buda | Dec 8, 2020 | Best Practices, Database Patch News, database patching, Database Security, Oracle, SQL Server, Uncategorized
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
by KarlaS | Jul 15, 2020 | Best Practices, open source, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Many companies are looking for open source database solutions to help shrink the IT budget by minimizing or avoiding support costs. One such solution would be migrating an Oracle database to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is a widely used open source RDBMS, and the PostgreSQL...
by Robert Buda | Jun 8, 2020 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle
Have you been wanting to encrypt your Oracle database “since forever,” but feel like you just can’t afford the downtime? If a lot of data is involved, taking it all offline and encrypting it could be very time-consuming. So you’ve been putting the process off, while...
