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Saurabh K. Gupta
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Saurabh K. Gupta

Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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Securing External Procedures with Oracle Database 12c


The Oracle Database creates the extproc process and runs under the operating system user, that starts the listener or runs an Oracle server process. Quite often, you will see the extproc process running as the oracle user. The extproc process is not physically associated with the Oracle Database.

Oracle Database 12c enables enhanced security for extproc by authenticating it against a user-supplied credential. This new feature allows the creation of a user credential and associates it with the PL/SQL library object. Whenever the application calls an external procedure, the extproc process authenticates the connection before loading the shared library.

The DBMS_CREDENTIAL package allows the configuration of the credential through member subprograms. The CREATE LIBRARY statement has been enhanced for credential specification. A new environment variable, ENFORCE_CREDENTIAL, can be specified in extproc.ora to control the authentication by the...

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Saurabh K. Gupta

Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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