Month: September 2014

Oracle on Windows

@mkratoch is speaking at 10am UGF2633: Managing Oracle 12c on Windows Again, 12cR1ps1 came before AIX and HPUX. SQL> select dbms_utility.port_string, version from v$instance; PORT_STRING VERSION ——————– —————– IBMPC/WIN_NT64-9.1.0 12.1.0.2.0

import into UTF8 database

A common error when you import single-byte characters (e.g. iso8859p1 or mswin1252) into multi-bytes databases (e.g. utf8) is ORA-12899: value too large for column. The root cause is the default semantics in a database being BYTE SQL> select VALUE, ISDEFAULT from v$parameter where NAME=’nls_length_semantics’ VALUE ISDEFAULT ——- ——— BYTE TRUE It means, one char equals […]

ssl version

I wrote about ssl version in jdbc thin yesterday The default version also no longer works for the thick client with 12c client and 11g Server. With 11gR2 : C:> tnsping (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCPS)(HOST=SRV01)(PORT=1521))) TNS Ping Utility for 64-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.4.0 OK (100 msec) with 12cR1 : C:> tnsping (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCPS)(HOST=SRV01)(PORT=1521))) TNS Ping Utility for 64-bit Windows: […]

TCPS and SSLv2Hello

Thanks to platform independence, the same java code work on different platforms. import java.util.Properties; import java.security.Security; import java.sql.*; import javax.net.ssl.*; public class KeyStore { public static void main(String argv[]) throws SQLException { String url=”jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=”+ “(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCPS)(Host=SRV01)(“+ “Port=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=DB01)))”; Properties props = new Properties(); props.setProperty(“user”, “scott”); props.setProperty(“password”, “tiger”); props.setProperty(“javax.net.ssl.trustStore”, “keystore.jks”); props.setProperty( “javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType”,”JKS”); props.setProperty( “javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword”,”***”); DriverManager.registerDriver( new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver()); Connection […]

check if using tcps part II

in your current session, as written there, check sys_context(‘USERENV’, ‘NETWORK_PROTOCOL’) in another session, you could grab some hints out of the network service banner. Do the maths, when it is not-not using ssl, it probably is… select sid,program, case when program not like ‘ora___@% (P%)’ then (select max(case when NETWORK_SERVICE_BANNER like ‘%TCP/IP%’ then ‘TCP’ when […]