Year: 2022

Easily mitigate log4j vulnerability in Oracle Unified Directory

In December 2021, the critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) was disclosed. With a CVSS rating of 10 out of 10, this vulnerability was or is extremely critical. Especially since Log4j is used relatively widely. Despite a great effort, many applications could only be corrected with a delay. Thus, it is not surprising that this […]

Uncover free hand-drawn like sketches for DBAs

As you could see in my blog post as well as presentations of the last months, I use Excalidraw for drawing hand-drawn like diagrams for a while now. A colleague at work made me aware of the tool. A colleague at work made me aware of the tool. And since the first use of Excalidraw, […]

How to easily back up photos when traveling!

After a long time with work and vacations at home, is now soon again vacation time. The ideal time to travel more and discover new places. For me, that includes taking my dusty photography equipment with me. However, it’s not quite like it used to be. The days are gone when I carried a bag […]

How to write Unified Audit Trail Records to SYSLOG 

With the introduction of Oracle Unified Audit, Oracle has completely redesigned the process of logging audit events. With the new unified audit trail, there is only one place where audit records are stored. Ok, the audit trail exists per PDB and for a read only database additionally somehow as a binary overflow file. However, the […]

Easy replacement of tnsnames.ora with LDAP Directory Server

The tnsnames.ora is a configuration file for Oracle database respectively Oracle Net Service Names resolution. It contains network service names that are mapped to connection descriptors for the local naming method. With the help of tnsnames.ora Oracle clients respectively the users can easily access Oracle databases. The connection descriptors provides all relevant information like host, […]

Free Oracle Unified Directory for Oracle Net Services

The tnsnames.ora is a configuration file for Oracle database name resolution. It contains network service names that are mapped to connection descriptors for the local naming method. With the help of tnsnames.ora Oracle clients respectively the users can easily access Oracle databases. The connection descriptors provides all relevant information like host, Port, service name etc. […]