aka “A Monty Python Approach to Security”… I found this oldie on my Laptop. The presentation was once given by me to create more awareness for this “Security” issue, while dealing with Oracle software or creating software in general. I still have to laugh when I think about the time I presented it…and Yeah…”most” of …
Monthly Archive: November 2008
Nov 17 2008
HOWTO: Avoid Conversion of Escape Codes
Sometimes the OTN Forum site scrambles to much code. The answer given / demonstrated on this site here, was asked on the OTN Forum: "Problem using extract function (PL/SQL) with """ " but there is no way to show the proper result on the Forum (even here I had to enable some tricks to show …
Nov 13 2008
Security: Setting an “Impossible” Password for SYS
I am currently busy trying to lock down (secure wise) APEX, which is, to say the least, very hard… Anyway one of my tricks from the old days (the days you couldn’t lock an account / database schema), was to lock an user account via the following alternative use of the ALTER USER statement ALTER …
Nov 10 2008
HOWTO: Validate XML data
Sometimes the “how to validate XML” question arises again on the OTN XMLDB Forum. A quick start would be to read up on the XMLDB FAQ Forum questions were Mark Drake demonstrates XML validation via some good examples. Another resource would be to read the Oracle XMLDB Developers Guide chapter about “Transforming and Validating XMLType …
Nov 02 2008

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