Consolidating authentication flow of multiple IDCS's in a single one

Those days, I was working on a customer that had several Oracle IDCS providers. Two of them for Oracle Cloud at Customer different appliances and one Oracle Cloud Infrastrucure account. There was a requirement to consolidate all users authentication flow on a single IDCS, so there was no need of keeping them all synced across …

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New "Tenancy Changes" on OCI360

Today I'm releasing v20.03 of OCI360! Now the tool will also include the "Changes since last execution" section for your Tenancy (section 1g), showing everything that changed since last OCI360 call. For now, the scope is limited to tracking changes in the following objects: Compute Instances Block Volumes Security Lists However, I plan to include …

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Weird ORA-01031: insufficient privileges on DGMGRL

Those days, my production dataguard system suddenly started to receive a weird ORA-01031: insufficient privileges on DGMGRL for any task like "show configuration" or "edit database set state". More weird is that nothing (apparently) was changed on the system. Another troubleshooting saga in my DBA life was about to start.. My broker was configured with …

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ORACHKSUM v20.01 is out!

Today I'm releasing v20.01 of ORACHKSUM! Now the tool is also compatible with Oracle Database 19c and any other 11.2.0.4+ DB with the latest Jan-2020 patch applied. For the ones who don't know what I'm talking about, orachksum is a tool that scans your database for malicious internal code changes (like tampering your DBMS_OUTPUT PL/SQL …

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Dissecting 200114 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. To check previous changes, follow the links below: Dissecting 191016 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 190716 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 190416 BP, PSU, RU and RUR …

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