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 Robert Buda | Jan 22, 2021 | Best Practices, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
We all know that database projects and other technical/IT projects often fail. They are never completed, the results fall far short of expectations, nobody uses the new application, and so on. Why? At the end of the day, if we look beneath the surface-level issues,...
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 Robert Buda | May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Full disclosure, I am a layperson when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). I have been doing some research to optimize the content on our budaconsulting.com website, and something caught my eye that concerns me. I wanted to mention it and see if readers have...
by Robert Buda | Jan 31, 2020 | Best Practices, Cloud, Database Security, Uncategorized
In response to the recent Capital One data breach, where a hacker exploited a misconfigured open-source Web Application Firewall hosted within Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Amazon CTO reminded customers that they must secure their own data when housed on AWS...
by Robert Buda | Dec 10, 2019 | Database Security, MariaDB, MySQL, Uncategorized
MySQL and MariaDB Encryption Options Encryption remains one of the most widely used cornerstones of data security across organizations of all sizes and industries. Why? In many cases it’s both effective and relatively simple to implement. There are two fundamental...
