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concepts and principles. This has resulted in the need for a concise book on Oracle programming to supplement the traditional texts in the database courses. …
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Contrary to claims by Oracle Corporation C.E.O., Larry Ellison, Oracle 9 is breakable. Perhaps Oracle’s “Unbreakable” marketing campaign was more to show their commitment to getting close to producing a secure product, and indeed, Oracle do take security very seriously. Oracle product has undergone and passed fourteen independent security evaluations including the Common Criteria assessment. In the database world this is quite an achievement with all of Oracle’s competitors far behind. Whilst Oracle 9 has not yet been certified it is no doubt currently being assessed. In the mean time this paper will hopefully help Oracle customers get closer to the secure environment they were promised.
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Where do we start? One of the problems in comprehending a massive product such as the Oracle database is the difficulty of getting a good sense of how the product works without getting lost in the details of implementing specific solutions. This book aims to solve this problem by giving you a thorough grounding in the concepts and technologies that form the foundation of the Oracle Database Server. Oracle also provides an Application Server and business applications, including the E-Business Suite and the Oracle Collaboration Suite, *which are outside the scope of the main body of this book.
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This Oracle security paper is one of a series describing hacking Oracle, Oracle security, un-documented Oracle and Oracle Architecture. Details of the other papers in this Oracle and security series can be obtained from www.pentest.co.uk as they become available. Copies of the scripts discussed in this document will be available for downloaded from this website.
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The skills sets required to be an Oracle Developer are changing significantly. Developers who know Oracle Forms, Reports, Discoverer and PL/SQL are going to need to enhance their skill set to support new Internet development environments and Oracle Fusion applications.
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The following document discusses the Oracle bbed tool. The name bbed is an acronym for Block Browser and EDitor and it is shipped with the database. It is intended for Oracle internal use only and the company never publishes any details about it. It is a very powerful tool but also extremely dangerous since it can change and/or corrupt data blocks of any Oracle database.
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The Oracle Database Listener is the database server software component that manages the network traffic between the Oracle Database and the client. The Oracle Database Listener listens on a specific network port (default 1521) and forwards network connections to the Database. The Listener is comprised of two binaries: (1) tnslsnr which is the Listener itself and (2) the Listener Control Utility (lsnrctl) which is used to administer the Listener on the server or remotely.
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Oracle has now entered the virtual server arena with the introduction of Oracle VM, based on the Open Source Xen™ 3.1 hypervisor. Emulex, an active participant in Open Source Linux and Xen, now supports Oracle VM. Emulex is driving technological innovation with Oracle and the Linux community to enhance virtualization and data integrity for SAN-connected deployments.
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The Oracle Spatial Relational Reader/Writer module provides the Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) with the ability to read and write geometric and attribute data stored using Oracle Spatial. This module communicates directly with Oracle Spatial for maximum throughput. Both the relational and object-relational models of Oracle Spatial are supported by FME: the relational model is discussed here and the object-relational model is discussed in a separate chapter – Oracle Spatial Object Reader/Writer.
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Oracle is a Red Hat Premier Partner adding their efforts to the development and optimization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the optimal platform for deploying Oracle solutions in the enterprise. As a part of the Unbreakable Linux initiative, Oracle has ported and certified its major applications, including Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, the Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Developer Suite, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Demonstrating its commitment to Linux, Oracle also offers direct operating system and Oracle application support to customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES.
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