Category Archives: System Admin

Oracle FIXED_DATE Parameter: Helpful during Testing?

While doing implementation of oracle application in one of my project we came across a requirement for testing ahead a year and a quarter. The requirements were to process transactions in future/past and complete the year end closing. As we … Continue reading

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Audit Trail in Oracle Application

Audit trail!!! Quite interesting topic for DBAs but oracle application uses its own mechanism for auditing. It provides the great amount of flexibility for users to decide how would they like the auditing to work. The importance of this feature … Continue reading

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Password Security in Oracle Application

This is quite interesting topic and every organization has its own standards and policies related to password security. Some organization requires that pwd length should be more than eight characters or password should not contain the user name. Oracle does … Continue reading

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End User Access Audit in Oracle Application

Every organization has specific audit requirements and Oracle application is very flexible to cater to theses different needs. In this post I will try to explore different features of end user access auditing and how to configure the same in Oracle … Continue reading

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