Update: January 28, 2019 What is Multi-Factor Authentication? An already excellent post by Hari Muthuswamy, I wanted to add a bit of information on Multifactor Authentication. – Dan Elliott Multi-Factor Authentication, also known as dual factor authentication or 2FAis not a new concept but how it is delivered has changed. Many of you remember carrying […]
Documentation – Your Technical Road Map Documentation isn’t something most of us enjoy, but in reality it is essential to what we as DBAs do. Now, I’m not talking about Oracle documentation here, we all read plenty of that. The documentation I’m writing about pertains more to compiling your own notes for specific tasks. I’ve been […]
Everyone has been in a situation where they needed a test environment and we all know physical test environments can prove to be costly to implement and maintain. Oracle VirtualBox provides a free, easy to install, desktop virtualization tool that is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. VirtualBox allows users to run just about […]