Security, in regards to the database, is pretty broad. There are a multitude of ways to secure your database. From physical or logical acc...

I'm not sure what are the question marks are lately...I can't think of better titles so perhaps it's me guessing at the title. I...

In a previous post, How To: Users and Roles (Simple) , I went through and demonstrated one way to build a simple security system using users...

I'm using Apex again, which is nice. I love the database work; cleaning, refactoring, etc. but there's just something very cool abo...

Nothing against women, so don't start with me. By "Man" I mean (hu)Man. Though there are plenty out there that would argue a...

In my experience so far, I've seen very few places where SYS_CONTEXT is used. It is typically used in conjunction with CONTEXT s and a...

It's been a little over a month since I've written anything about it and seeing as how I have not posted anything Oracle related in ...

That's what I'm calling it anyway. Part I . Part II . Part III . I've started the project on Google Code The goal is simple, hav...

Part I . Part II . Alright, I've officially hit scope creep . We've recently implemented VPD to further protect senstive data. We...

Part I . I said I was going to flesh that out a bit more. After some more thought about it, it could be a nice feature for DBAs. I'll s...

There might be a couple of reasons you want to disable DDL in a production environment (other than the normal operations of the database). ...

I've been looking at how to send out an alert to the DBA group on failed login attempts. In searching through the Database and Client ev...

I've mentioned in the past that I don't particularly care for trigger. That's a shocker, I know, because Tom Kyte loves them so...

Well, I wouldn't really say a failure , but it's certainly been a trial. We're trying to create a new process that will detect f...