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David Litchfield, a well known security expert, has created a report that compares the security flaws found in Oracle with those found in SQL Server. According to his report SQL Server 2005 is more secure than Oracle 10G Release 2 and he says that this is tanks to the Security Development Lifecycle.Although there are indeed no known security flaws in SQL Server 2005 you must know that SQL Server 2005 uses several components that are not directly part of the SQL Server core and it in these components...
In analogy to my previous post of the OCIW32.dll file being locked you might also encounter that the Orahasgen10.dll file is locked as well: To be able to continue the installation make sure that you stop the OracleMTSRecoveryService. This can be done by running the following command: net stop OracleMTSRecoverySrevice Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
In case that you receive the following dialog during an upgrade of the Oracle Client: You need to shut down the following services and click on "Retry": COM+ Event System Help and Support Task Scheduler Themes To view which services have a handle open to the OCIW32.dll file you can download and run Process Explorer from Sysinternals Microsoft which you can download here. After the installation reboot your PC to make sure that all the services you have just stopped are started by the system. Cross-posted...
I do believe that message boxes should be informative towards the user but today I saw several over-informative message boxes during the installation of the Oracle Designer/SCM 6i Release 4.11: (I love the "More follows...") Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado...
A co-worker received today the following exception after the installation of Oracle Designer everytime his web service tried to open a connection to the Oracle Server:System.Exception: OCIEnvNlsCreate failed with return code -1The problems started when help desk installed the Oracle Designer on his machine so we figured out that this exception was related to this installation. Now what was exactly the problem.Together with the installation of the Oracle Designer a different Oracle Client has been...