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An Easy Approach To Oracle Database Security Assessment

September 28, 2019 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

Performing routine holistic database health checks is a must – good database administrators do more than just keep their database up to PAR . I perform these health checks on a quarterly basis to analyze database capacity/resource utilization, availability, performance, and security. Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) just made my life alot easier and my health checks more effective. DBSAT is a command line tool focused on identifying how securely the database is configured, who are the users and what are their entitlements, what security policies and controls are in place, and where sensitive data resides with the goal of promoting successful approaches to mitigate potential security risks. DBSAT is a lightweight utility that will not impair system performance in a measurable way.

How To Rename An Oracle PDB

June 11, 2019 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

The concept of a multitenant database was introduced in Oracle database 12c. The multitenant architecture enables an Oracle database to function as a multitenant container database (CDB) that houses pluggable databases (PDB).

Oracle JVM Installation For Oracle 18c Database on RHEL

May 21, 2019 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

This blog describes the steps needed to install and configure Oracle JVM for the Oracle 18c Database. The implementation described in this blog is based on a server installation with a minimum resource allocations required by Oracle and can also be used to install Oracle JVM for Oracle Database 11g/12c as well.

Disabling Transparent HugePages On RHEL 7

April 16, 2019 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

Transparent HugePages (THP) memory is different from standard HugePages memory because the kernel thread allocates memory dynamically during runtime. Standard HugePages memory is pre-allocated at startup, and does not change during runtime. This dynamic memory allocation of THP can cause memory allocation delays during runtime. To avoid performance issues, Oracle recommends that you disable THP on all Oracle Database servers. Oracle recommends that you instead use standard HugePages for enhanced performance.

Oracle Database 18c Silent Installation On RHEL 7

March 24, 2019 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

This blog describes silent installation and configuration of Grid Infrastructure 18c (64bit) and Oracle Database 18c (64bit) on RHEL 7. The implementation described in this blog is based on a server installation with a minimum resource allocations required by Oracle.

Flushing Shared Pool In Production DB

April 19, 2017 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

The Oracle Database Server is made up of two main components; the instance and database. The instance consists of memory structures and background processes, whiles the database is a collection of physical database files. If we look at the Oracle Database architecture we can see that there is an organized layout for the memory structures, in which we can find the main memory structure and it’s sub-memory structures.

Faster Run-Time In Oracle 12c Data Pump Import

August 10, 2016 Richard Koranteng Blogs Technology

I remember when Data Pump was introduced in Oracle 10g database; it was ground-breaking at that time with all the cool features such as the ability to pause and resume an operation or even export/import an entire tablespace. Well if you thought that was exciting then hold on to your seat for what you are about to hear. Oracle 12c database allows you to suppress the generation of redo during a Data Pump import.