Database management

Top 5 Database Management Challenges – and How to Solve Them

As business needs change and the focus on security increases, the landscape of data storage and analytics options is growing more complex.  Discover the common database management challenges businesses face and how to avoid them by selecting an effective database management solution. 5 Challenges Companies Have with Database Management: And How to Choose the Right Solution When 451 […]

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Current Trends in Database Management

Trends may come and go, but many new concepts in database management have staying power, as well as the ability to greatly impact the organizations that integrate them. Every organization wants to stay updated with the latest trends in database management as well as how to best take advantage of them to benefit their business. Database Management […]

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Oracle License Compliance: 3 Things You Need to Know

Let’s face it, Oracle’s licensing policies around its various software product suites are not known for being straightforward.  Between core factors, VM restrictions, version upgrade limitations, and user minimums, it can be difficult to tell whether or not your organization is compliant with Oracle’s database licensing requirements. Oracle’s complex licensing policies, along with the fact […]

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Secure Your Oracle Database: Authentication and Access Controls

Corporate information is a critical differentiator for organizations and their customers.  Financial intelligence, personally identifiable information (PII), trade secrets and other proprietary information are common forms of data stored in databases. In order to protect this information from internal and external misuse or attack, businesses must implement security measures as close to the data as […]

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Best Practices: Secure Oracle Configuration and Database Auditing

In our last post, we shared the 4 most important areas of database security and discussed how to safeguard your Oracle environment with best practices for Authentication and Access Controls. In this post, we continue with a breakdown of Oracle database security best practices for Secure Oracle Configuration and Database Auditing. Secure Oracle Configuration Secure Listener Configuration Listener authentication should be local OS user. Implement […]