Arjen Visser, the Techical Director of Dbvisit, presented two papers at Oracle Open World 2009 in San Francisco:

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.

>>Download paper: PDF

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

>>Download paper: PDF

The Perl project (homework) to take away can be downloaded here.

New features in Dbvisit 5.2:
1. Automatically create standby databases (non ASM) from:
- Normal Primary Database.
- ASM Primary Database.
- RAC Primary Database.
2. Graceful switchover for RAC and ASM databases.

The software is fully functional commercial software and includes a 30-day evaluation license. A license key is needed to activate the software to change it from an evaluation version to a fully licensed version. No re-install or upgrade is required.

Upgrades:
Download the above software for an upgrade to Dbvisit. Existing license keys are automatically applied to the latest software. For upgrade instructions, please see the Readme.

Please note:

• Free support is available during the evaluation period.
• Upgrade to Dbvisit 5.2 is free is you have a current Dbvisit support.
• Existing 5.1 license keys are NOT valid for 5.2. Please contact us to obtain 5.2 license keys if you have current Dbvisit support.
• Oracle Databases or servers will not be restarted during the installation.
• This software is compatible with Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g databases (may support Oracle 7.3 and 8.0 in come cases).
• This software supports single instance and RAC databases.
• To purchase a license key please use the Dbvisit order form.

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.

No install or configuration necessary, just download, unzip and run executable on Windows, Linux or UNIX. It is really easy.

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.

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Screenshots of Dbvice:

Dbvice automatically detects all databases running on server.

Starting the Security checks.

Sample output.

Sample output.

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