How Poor Communication Brought an Oracle System Down
A “lesson learned” on the importance of keeping your DBAs in the loop when making system changes, so you can avoid causing database issues.
Database Patch News — February 2021 (Issue 6)
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
4 Keys to Avoiding the Number 1 Cause of Database Project Failure
At the end of the day, if we look beneath the surface-level issues, the main reason for database project failure — by far — is poor communication.
Oracle Active Data Guard Replication Error with Cisco Firewall: Root Cause and Workaround
One of our customers had issues over the past several months with Oracle Active Data Guard replication to a standby server. The database on the standby server would intermittently fall out of sync with the database on the primary server, and log files were not consistently shipping to the standby server.
Test Your Disaster Recovery Strategies before Disaster Strikes
As the old saying goes, “It’s better to be safe than sorry,” and testing your disaster recovery data is essential to keeping you and your data safe!
It’s in the Database
Managed Health Systems of Indiana patient health information, July-September, 2019; Microsoft customer service and support records, January 22, 2020; Wyze email addresses, December 30, 2019; Georgia Tech student data, March 2019. What do all of these breaches have in common? The data that was stolen was inside a database. Yet when most companies think about […]
Communication Breakdown: Avoiding Conflict with Your Customers
This post describes two kinds of situations where conflict is likely to occur if we don’t handle things well, along with some thoughts about how to avoid conflict in these and other instances.
Oracle Data Encryption Options
Oracle offers various authentication and audit features to protect data from unauthorized access. But what about data at rest in operating system files, backups or other storage media?
GDPR Right to Be Forgotten and Other Access Rights
To ease compliance with Article 15, 16, and 17 of GDPR, and to support compliance with other GDPR Articles, we recommend the following steps with regard to handling of personal data.
Why Your Database Management Team Should Regularly Double-Check Your Backups
I’ve blogged before about the importance of checking database backups. Over 90% of new clients that we assess have backups that are either incomplete or totally unusable (true statistic!). The following story of a backup failure that happened recently—and the successful double-check by our DBA Scott)—provides a noteworthy example of how bad backups can happen […]
