Archive for April, 2008

Oracle Passwords: behind the scenes

April 30th, 2008

Up to 30 characters long. All characters will be converted to uppercase before the hashing starts
8-byte hash, encrypted with a DES encryption algorithm without real salt (just the username).
The algorithm can be found in the book “Special Ops Host And Network Security For Microsoft, Unix, And Oracle” on page 727.
Oracle database 11g offers the (optional) [...]

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OWB roadmap

April 30th, 2008

If you want to know if OWB has a future (yes there is competition from ODI/sunopsis); click here.

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Start & Stop an Oracle database service on Windows

April 29th, 2008

For people having an Oracle DB on their Laptop runing Windows. See here a cmd to stop and start the services. So if you boot (and put the service on manuel) it will take less resources of your laptop. Then just click the shortcut with the following command to activate your DB.
To stop: net stop [...]

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Oracle Open World 2007 demo pack

April 21st, 2008

Download the demo material of Oracle Open World 2007 here.

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