DBA Brasil 4.0 está chegando!

Mais um ano voou e já está chegando novamente o DBA Brasil 4.0, o maior evento de plataforma de dados do Brasil! Este é um evento de um dia e será realizado no sábado, 4 de maio de 2019, de 08:00 – 17:30. Ele é totalmente gratuito e aborda temas como bancos de dados, infraestrutura …

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Force a private IP during Load Balancer creation in OCI

Those days, I needed to recreate a Load Balancer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for a specific reason. It was a private Load Balancer. The problem is that when you create a Load Balancer, you can't specify the Private IP address in the Subnet that you want to use.. Oracle will pick automatically 3 IPs from …

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Dissecting 190115 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 181016 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180717 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180417 BP, PSU, RU and RUR …

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Injecting a simple dbakit (or rootkit) in Oracle PL/SQL objects

In this article, I will show how it is extremely simple to inject a hidden rootkit inside an Oracle database PL/SQL object (like a procedure) making it very hard to detect for almost all DBA's and Security Admins. It's important to understand and know how those virus works so we can always be prepared to …

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Dissecting 181016 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

Since 2017 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 171017 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180116 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180417 BP, PSU, RU …

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