Best Practice PL/SQL with Steven Feuerstein

Best Practice PL/SQL with Steven Feuerstein

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Security Advisory

Pete Finnigian has put together an alert about using directory objects.
this has been fized in Oracle latesh Security Advisory Date 01-18

Database Links

For all those who use database links arnd are worried about Database links what they are how they are sued and what are the ramifications. here is a good Article .

Database Links

Sox Deal with it.

As pete States the SOX stuff is heatign up as Yearly Audits come into play.
SOX is a very Broad Law and in that sense has little or no explanantion on what the auditors want thus leaving it up to the auditors to determine what's right and wrong.

Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog

Bind variables - The key to application performance

Everyone Talk on and on about why bind variables are good .
Yet Application Developers still think it is easier to code using literals or string concatenation.
This interesting article again stresses the point as to where we should use bind variables and Why.


Bind variables - The key to application performance