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Watch Your FRA!
Jul 10, 2020Reading Time: 3 minutes Now the FRA may sound like a magical area that should never run into storage-related issues—but that could not be farther from the truth.
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Database Patch News — June 2020 (Issue 4)
Jun 29, 2020Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
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In-Place Oracle Database Encryption with Zero Downtime
Jun 8, 2020Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that you can now encrypt existing tablespaces in-place, either online or offline in Oracle?
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Test Your Disaster Recovery Strategies before Disaster Strikes
Mar 20, 2020Reading Time: 2 minutes As the old saying goes, “It’s better to be safe than sorry,” and testing your disaster recovery data is essential to keeping you and your data safe!
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It’s in the Database
Mar 3, 2020Reading Time: < 1 minute Managed Health Systems of Indiana patient health information, July-September, 2019; Microsoft customer service and support records, January 22, 2020; Wyze email addresses, December 30, 2019; Georgia Tech student data, March 2019. What do all of these breaches have in common? The data that was stolen was inside a database. Yet when most companies think about data security, they still focus on securing the network, and spend very little time and energy making sure the databases—where…..
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Database Patch News — February 2020 (Issue 2)
Feb 19, 2020Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s monthly newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Cloud Customers Need to Secure Their Own Data
Jan 31, 2020Reading Time: 2 minutes The key takeaway is that if you have your data in any cloud service, you must be as rigorous in securing that data as if it were in your own data center—and in some cases even more so.
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Communication Breakdown: Avoiding Conflict with Your Customers
Dec 4, 2019Reading Time: 5 minutes This post describes two kinds of situations where conflict is likely to occur if we don’t handle things well, along with some thoughts about how to avoid conflict in these and other instances.
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Oracle Data Encryption Options
Nov 21, 2019Reading Time: 2 minutes Oracle offers various authentication and audit features to protect data from unauthorized access. But what about data at rest in operating system files, backups or other storage media?
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Lock the Safe—Secure the Database
Nov 14, 2019Reading Time: 3 minutes You are going away on a much-needed vacation to Aruba. You will only be gone for a week. But you understand the importance of security, so you make sure you lock the windows and doors. You put the lights on a timer so would-be thieves think there is some activity in the house. You cancel the newspaper so they won’t be piling up outside and you ask your neighbor to watch the house in case…..
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