Oracle Magazine, May/June 2018
PEER TO PEER ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY JUNE 2018 28 Company URL Database Whisperers Job title Co owner Oracle credentials Oracle Database Certified Master Length of time using Oracle products 12 years Whats your favorite technique on the job I love to dig into traces and hex dumps to find a solution to complex problems I also enjoy checking security for my customers and trying to find an escalation path for privileges I use my own set of scripts and tools plus official ones such as Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool and open source ones such as John the Ripper and Metasploit I usually try to find a way of escalating from a database application account to gain access to the operating system What advice do you have about getting into database development The amount of knowledge on the internet is amazing Take advantage of that by identifying Java Champions Oracle ACEs and wellknown bloggers and build your personal list of favorites Learn from them Start to write something that is useful for you a tool that will help with something simple And challenge yourself each week with something new Dont get into the trap of DBA versus developer Theres no such thing as developer knowledge or DBA knowledge theres only knowledge about the product Whats the most common cause you see when IT projects go wrong People who dont understand that nine women cant give birth to a child in a month or who want things to be done quickly without proper testing and without thinking about security and scaling performance Its also important to remember that if you hire developers and DBAs who lack experience they need to be supported with appropriate education and guided by a manager who can help them learn quickly Kamil Stawiarski Warsaw Poland
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