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.

Proper design of an application includes security plans, which ensure that specific data is available only to specific user groups. Application design should also include security plans for guarding against data or application tampering. These two aspects can easily be set aside while developers are caught up in the p…

The only group of Oracle specialists that continues to stay outside of the cloud hype are server-side developers. Everybody else (from CFOs to DBAs) are frantically trying to figure out what is happening and how to survive in the rapidly changing environment. Nevertheless, developers still hope that either thei…