Oracle Data Safe is a fully-integrated cloud service that helps organizations secure their enterprise data with a comprehensive set of features for protecting sensitive and regulated data in Oracle Cloud. An Oracle Data Safe introductory video describes the data security challenges that organizations face and how Oracle Data Safe can address with its five main features:
-Security Assessment
-Data Discovery
-Data Masking
-User Assessment
-Activity Auditing

As part of Quest Experience Week (QXW) 2019, Gary Henderson and John Norman from Nationwide spoke about how Nationwide leveraged Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fleet Maintenance feature to effectively and proactively patch its Oracle Database environment to address critical vulnerabilities and maintain version currency. Nationwide was able to patch more than 7,000 databases over a three-year period, with a success rate exceeding 99 percent. The company’s patching approach gets a lot done with few people, minimal downtime, and minimal risk. 

William Hardie, Vice President of Oracle Database Product Management, recently shared that customers who are wishing to utilize the Machine Learning, Spatial, and Graph features of Oracle Database are no longer required to purchase additional licenses. This is keeping with Oracle's mission to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities. 

Previously, SELECT published Why Your Database is Not Secure: A Prelude to the COLLABORATE 2019 Session. Over the next few weeks, I thought I would dive in a little deeper into the subject of database security based on that session. The presentation had four topic areas based on the time, effort, risk, and costs to perform. This article provides an overview on three areas that I believe are the lowest in time, effort, risks, and costs. I call these “Easy Pickings.”

Data Guard is one of the best high availability solutions for the mission-critical database, which provides zero data loss, which falls under Maximum Availability Architecture. We know that there is no change in creating a physical standby database and configuring Data Guard broker procedure since 10g except a few minor changes. In this article, we will deploy standby creation and configuration of Data Guard broker completely through Ansible. We find Ansible to be one of the best simple IT solutions of DevOps.

Cloud migration is a journey. Migration projects need to be carefully planned, tested and executed and application and database performance needs to be continuously monitored to ensure ongoing success. We often hear about companies who have migrated their databases to the cloud only to find out that their monthly subscription bills are far higher than…

Samuel Pesse, an Oracle ACE, wrote in his blog about how to self-test your database. The content below is a republishing of his words.

Dimitri Gielis, the founder of AOP and APEX R&D, wrote about the best and cheapest Oracle APEX hosting - Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

Oracle GoldenGate Product Management is happy to announce free GoldenGate software licenses and support on OCI Marketplace. This promotional offer is valid for a limited period of time for existing Oracle Cloud customers who have already trusted and invested in Oracle Cloud and also to new customers who are planning to migrate data to Oracle Cloud in the next many months.

Juan Loaiza, Oracle's executive vice president of mission-critical database technologies, spoke at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 about four technology shifts that are reshaping the enterprise database.