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A problem that often seems to happen when Oracle 9iAS 9.0.2 crashes is that you can’t seem to restart OID using OIDCTL. For example, a situation might arise when a server is bounced without 9iAS being shut down cleanly. When you reboot the PC, and use DCMCTL to check the status of the OC4J instances [...]

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Whilst we’re on the subject of security, there’s a couple of useful papers available on OTN that detail how security on 9iAS works. First up is a detailed technical paper giving best practises for security for Oracle 9iAS 1.0.2.x, which is worth taking a look through if you’re supporting this first release of 9iAS. For 9iAS [...]

I’ve just come across Pete Finnigan’s website, where’s he’s put together an excellent set of links through to Oracle security papers written by himself and other third parties. One particularly interesting paper is on Detecting SQL Injection In Oracle, a bit of a ‘hot topic’ these days summed as; “SQL Injection is a way to [...]