I have received a lot of questions about this area recently. Here are a couple of tips and tricks I use to provide security within shell scripts. Note: The syntax I will use is for Bourne type shells. The same concepts apply to csh, but the syntax changes. The first scripting security issue for DBAs [...]

Since the switch to My Oracle Support, I have been unable to download patches from E-Business Suite 12.0 via the My Oracle Support pages (both flash – it seems to only give me the R12 that points to 12.1, and html – it doesn’t give an EBS patches). Fortunately, the html version of updates.oracle.com still [...]

My presentation on using Oracle VM to support test and development environments is now available on the downloads page.

My presentation on upgrading the database to 11.1.0.7 with either 11.5.10.2 or R12 is now available on the downloads page.