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Oracle Database Security Central
If you already run Audit Vault and Database Firewall and just found out Oracle now calls something “Database Security Central,” this post answers the question you probably have first: is this a new thing to buy, or is it what AVDF becomes? Since this question tends to come with two more attached to it, I…
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Managing TDE Encryption Keys Across a Hybrid Data Guard Estate: External Keystores and Cross-Region Key Replication
When your primary lives on on-premises Exadata and your standby sits in a different region or cloud, the hardest part of Transparent Data Encryption is not the encryption itself. It is deciding where the master key lives, how both sides reach it, and what happens to that key when you fail over. This is the…
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EBCDIC Compatibility in Oracle 26ai: The Mainframe Re-Platforming Bridge
Special thanks to Virginia Arroyo, Oracle Cloud Migration Director, for her review of this article. There is a quiet assumption baked into almost every modern database conversation, and it goes something like this: everything is Unicode now, so encoding is a solved problem. For most greenfield systems, that is more or less true. But walk…
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Exadata X11MV: 50% More VM Density and What It Means for Your Cloud Exadata Consolidation Strategy
I’ve been tracking the Exadata Cloud Infrastructure release notes for a while now, and the June 30 entry caught my attention in a way that went beyond the usual quarterly feature list. Oracle has quietly released a new infrastructure generation for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure that changes the consolidation math for a lot…
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Exadata Exascale on AWS: Oracle’s Answer to Hybrid Cloud Database Performance
Oracle’s recent announcement of Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) changes the landscape for database administrators by making Exadata’s advanced features available without the traditional high upfront costs. This service operates as a consumption-based model within AWS, allowing users to access Exadata’s optimized performance at minimal initial investment. The shared architecture offers the same…
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Oracle 26ai Deprecations: What’s Going Away
If you’ve been running Oracle Database long enough, you’ve seen deprecation notices before. Usually they’re a heads-up in the release notes, maybe a year or two to adapt. Oracle 26ai takes a more thorough approach: it’s streamlining the platform by retiring features whose functionality has been superseded by more modern, more capable alternatives. This is…
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