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Oracle Open World 2009 is scheduled for October 11-15 in San Francisco.

I will be presenting 2 papers at Oracle Open World.

This is my first time at OOW and I am very much looking forward to it.
It will be a great chance to meet new people and to catch up with friends and customers.

I will be presenting the following 2 papers:

1) How to Create a Technical Disaster Recovery Implementation Plan.

A technical disaster recovery implementation plan involves the actual implementation of the hardware and software at the disaster recovery location. It ensures that there are no surprises when building the disaster recovery servers and that all critical systems and their components have been accounted for. This session focuses on Oracle-centric applications in the UNIX/Linux environment.
When: Monday Oct 12 16:00 – 17:00, Moscone South, Room 270

2) Perl:DBA’s and Developers best (forgotten) friend.

This session reintroduces Perl as a language of choice for DBAs and developers for developing a range of programs and scripts. Discover what makes Perl so successful and why it is so versatile. Perl can automate all those manual tasks, and it is truly platform-independent. It may not be in the limelight like other languages, but it is a remarkable language for development and is still very current with ongoing development. Oracle and VMware still use it as part of their latest software releases.
When: Tuesday Oct 13 16:00 – 17:00, Moscone South, Room 270

If you are attending OOW and are interested in these topics, please come along.

If you are one of our Dbvisit customers or just want catch up with me during OOW – please tweet me @dbvisit or send me an email. I am looking forward to meeting with you.

We are pleased to release Dbvice – a Free Oracle Database Security Audit Utility that can be run against any Oracle database. We are still in Beta testing, but we have made it available for public download.
Dbvice is run directly on the Oracle database server. Dbvice does not need to be installed or configured. Dbvice will automatically detect the databases installed on the database server, and will prompt for which database to run the audit.

Dbvice audits the database based on the recommended security checks published by Oracle to ensure a database is secure. Dbvice does not alter the database or implement any changes, it only reports on recommended security settings.
Dbvice performs the following checks:

• Listener secure
• User privileges
• Database options
• Sample schemas
• Remote Authentication
• Oracle file security
• Public Privileges

Dbvice can be run against any Oracle version, and on most platforms.
Free download www.Dbvice.com – Oracle Database Security Audit.

One of our successful partners in South America – Palacios Software has organised a number of presentations on interesting topics including fusion middleware, JDeveloper, ADF, Jheadstart and Disaster Recovery. The Disaster Recovery topic focuses on how Dbvisit can assist companies with business continuity (BC) and high availability (HA) in case of a disaster, outage or failure.

To view our Dbvisit power point presentation (in English) please see Dbvisit presentation.

We are now an official Oracle Partner.