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Notes of a Junior on the Path to Oracle Mastery


Notes of a Junior on the Path to Oracle Mastery
On this blog I am writing about thoughts, solutions, failures and pitfalls on the path to Oracle Mastery. It’s still a long way to go. On this blog, the main focus is learning Oracle.

perfstat/perfstat, OScanner reveals them all

Published by HP Fuchs | Filed under Oracle Database, Security, Tools

Unfortunately, creating database accounts like “create user test identified by test” is common practice. Leaving default accounts with default passwords open is as common too. OScanner reveals those weak points mercilessly.

Oracle Scanner 1.0.6 by patrik@cqure.net
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[-] Checking host 120.23.45.104
[-] Checking sid (t432) for common passwords
[x] Got IO Exception
[-] Checking sid (t433) for common [...]

March 18th, 2008. 1 Comment »

Oracle Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)

Published by HP Fuchs | Filed under Oracle Database, Tools

Oracle Remote Diagnostic Agent is a great tool to collect detailed information about an oracle database and its environment. It’s not only a great tool for troubleshooting but also very helpful for documenting an Oracle environment, for example after installation, production start, etc.

Installing and configuring RDA takes a few easy steps. Installation and configuration is [...]

March 11th, 2008. Comment now »