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Martin Klier

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The usual end-of-the-year stuff, but honestly!

Before everyone diappears from The Net(tm) for Christmas: Have a nice yule-tide, don’t eat too much of the feast, don’t drink and drive, and talk the RDBMS of your choice into operating itself for at least two or three days: You won’t miss the usual 6-in-the-morning phone calls on Christmas! If you are lucky enough […]

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Oracle 11g: Password expired, account locked – unwanted!

Hi, it’s old news, but oracle 11g expires passwords after 180 days, and locks you out if you mistype your password 10 times, and most DBAs don’t like that. It’s unsecure, but for client-server-applications a locked account is no single-user-annoyance, it’s a downtime killing SLAs, nerves and – hopefully not – DBA jobs. So just […]

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