Even if your organization has dedicated IT expert or an entire IT department, partnering with a reliable technology specialist could help to provide additional professional advice that may dramatically improve the performance of your network and servers by appropriately preparing your company for an unwanted and untimely disaster.
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The thought of being chosen for an Oracle Audit brings on moments of panic for even the most seasoned CIO or DBA. There is a whole industry of companies (Software Licensing Consultants) that will assist you in the event of an Oracle Audit. They will help you try to mitigate the risk of a current audit. Up till now not a single one of these firms would offer you an Oracle Audit Protection Guarantee. That has all just changed, and will be revealed later in this article. There are a number of lawyers who have booming practices dealing with software license issues. The internet is full of stories of companies who have been through the ugly process of an Oracle audit or had to deal with Oracle aggressive sales techniques associated with the audit.
Wow what a week! I'm happy to be back stateside where they have regular drip coffee so I can actually survive being jet-lagged. Besides the lack of caffeine options at the conference, I had a great trip to Barcelona with some very exciting news coming out of VMworld Europe! I even had a little time to catch a Champions League match!
Barcelona vs. Man. City
So let's talk about the VMware's mic drop moment with the announcement of VMware Cloud on AWS. The Keynote on Tuesday was all about this, how it will connect up a customer's internal datacenter with the main public cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, VMware's own cloud) and allow for automated transferring workloads seamlessly between those entities. Interesting stuff.
As for Oracle, it's interesting to note that it's cloud wasn't part of this. But the licensing implications are still very unclear. A lot to come on that in the next few weeks / months.
Check out the full details of the announcement here.
#betomorrow
A client ran into a recovery scenario recently that made me realize that some of the simpler scenarios are often forgotten. So this is a quick post just as a reminder some recovery scenarios can be easy. And it emphasizes how Oracle works to ensure that recovery is quick and painless.
PL/SQL applications consist – generally – of many procedures, functions and packages. A group of them can be invoked directly by applications as entry points of their user requirements while others are invoked by other packages as part of application business design.
Before Oracle 12c – in terms of database security – there was no difference between these two groups, and a granted user was able to execute any of these many units irrestrictively.
Oracle 12c introduces a new optional ACCESSIBLE BY clause that enables you to prevent package executions from outside the business logic, specifying a whitelist of predefined known elements that can only access a specific PL/SQL unit.
