My presentations, 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.3: A Technical Perspective and Secrets of Successful 11gR2 Upgrades in an E-Business Suite Environment, have been uploaded.  The links are on the Downloads page.

If you are not aware, My Oracle Support enforces the limits to patch access during extended support of a product. If you try to download a patch that is in extended support, you get an error message telling you to contact Support Sales. I have no problem with this in general. However, I do have [...]

My presentations from Openworld are now available on the downloads page. Secrets of Successful 11gR2 Upgrades in an E-Business Suite Environment Using Oracle VM to Support an E-Business Suite Environment What Does the End of Premier Support Mean for You (from the Database SIG meeting)

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 [...]