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My APEX was fine and then it wasn’t
I got a nasty shock this morning when I fired up my local Application Expression installation.It had been working fine and all of a sudden…just dead. I sounded like all of those family members that as...
View ArticleConnections with a wallet – redux
Wow…it is nearly 4 years ago now that I wrote an article on connecting to the database via a wallet to avoid having to hard code passwords into script. That article is...
View ArticleQuick and easy masking
I had a request from a client a while back regarding masking of data. They had an application with sensitive data in the Production environment (where access and audit were very tightly controlled) but...
View ArticleFirst steps with Hashicorp Vault and Ansible
This post is about using using hashicorp vault and ansible.Everyone that has used ansible knows you sometimes can’t get around storing secrets (passwords mostly) in an ansible playbook because for...
View ArticleSolving accountability for ssh/linux servers without creating personal accounts
One of the continuing issues that I see is accountability (who did what on what server) on Linux or other operating systems that are using ssh. The traditional solution for this problem is personal...
View ArticleVideo : Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) : OAuth Implicit
In today’s video we look at the OAuth Implicit flow for Oracle REST Data Services.This goes together with a previous video about first-party authentication here.Both videos are based on parts of this...
View ArticleSecuring Data in Power BI- an Interactive Diagram
I haven’t been very good at sharing my analytics work as often I feel others are more skilled in this area than I am, just starting out, but today I’d like to start to fix that by sharing an...
View ArticleTightened security in 20c
If you cannot wait for a fully autonomous offering, and you’ve jumped into the 20c preview release on Oracle Cloud, obviously the first thing you will probably be installing is Oracle Application...
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Clickjacked!
In the language of the millennials I should start this post with “TIL”, but for the rest of us out there that are “not so down with the cool kids” the expression is “Today I learned”.Anyway…today I...
View ArticleHow to do a GRANT on an entire schema
TL;DR: There is no schema grant command in Oracle, but this routine lets you get close.Why no schema level grant?A very common request on the various forums that exist for the Oracle Database is a...
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