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Published inJun 2016
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ISBN-139781782172123
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Zoran Pavlovic
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Zoran Pavlovic

Zoran Pavlovic is currently working as an Oracle Technical Architect in his company. He works with Oracle technologies (primary Oracle Database) since 2005. Areas of his expertise are Security and Performance Tuning of Oracle Database. Zoran has worked on various complex database environments including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, etc. He has worked as a consultant for Oracle Consulting as well as instructor for Oracle University across EMEA region. Zoran is first member of Oracle ACE Program in Serbia, and a featured speaker/author at many conferences/magazines.
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Maja Veselica
Maja Veselica
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Maja Veselica

Maja Veselica, MSc in software engineering, is currently working for Parallel d.o.o., Belgrade, as an Oracle Database consultant (security, performance tuning, and so on). She has been working as an instructor for Oracle University since 2010. In the last couple of years, she has also been working for Oracle Consulting. Also, Maja is a member of Oracle ACE Program and has more than 20 Oracle certificates. She enjoys (beta) testing Oracle products and participating in other Oracle-related activities.
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Encryption is a very important security mechanism used to enforce confidentiality of data. There are two types of encryption that can be used in the Oracle Database. The first type is application-based encryption, which is implemented using the DBMS_CRYPTO PL/SQL package (this type is not covered in this book), and the second type is Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). TDE is a part of Advanced Security option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. It can be used to encrypt data in rest (table columns and tablespaces inside the database) and in transit (network, Recovery Manager (RMAN) backups, and Data Pump Exports).

The word transparent in Transparent Data Encryption means that application is not aware that data is encrypted in any way. In other words, application will never see the encrypted data-if user is not authorized to see the data, error (for example, insufficient privileges, table, or view does not exist) will be shown. The only way that a user will see encrypted data...

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Zoran Pavlovic

Zoran Pavlovic is currently working as an Oracle Technical Architect in his company. He works with Oracle technologies (primary Oracle Database) since 2005. Areas of his expertise are Security and Performance Tuning of Oracle Database. Zoran has worked on various complex database environments including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, etc. He has worked as a consultant for Oracle Consulting as well as instructor for Oracle University across EMEA region. Zoran is first member of Oracle ACE Program in Serbia, and a featured speaker/author at many conferences/magazines.
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Maja Veselica

Maja Veselica, MSc in software engineering, is currently working for Parallel d.o.o., Belgrade, as an Oracle Database consultant (security, performance tuning, and so on). She has been working as an instructor for Oracle University since 2010. In the last couple of years, she has also been working for Oracle Consulting. Also, Maja is a member of Oracle ACE Program and has more than 20 Oracle certificates. She enjoys (beta) testing Oracle products and participating in other Oracle-related activities.
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