Oracle Applications 11i Encrypted Password String Disclosure (PDF): An undisclosed security vulnerability exists in Oracle Applications 11i that may allow an unauthenticated, internal attacker to obtain Oracle Applications’ user account encrypted password strings, which in turn can be decrypted using previously published information. An attacker can potentially obtain either any user’s password or the Oracle […]

Here is how to store and download Excel files to/from an Oracle database using ColdFusion.

In addition to this list, here is another Java based open source database for you: H2. Well, it is not really open source, it is free to use and distribute, and the source code is included. But currently does not use a traditional open source (GPL) license. (via).

I stumbled upon an article about open source databases. I’ve always thought that MySQL and PostgreSQL were the only open source databases out there, but it turns out that there are quite a few more.

Here is a list of open source databases that are mentioned in the article:

In a recent press release, Winter Corporation, a leading center of expertise in database scalability, announced the results of the 2005 Winter TopTen Program, a survey of the world’s largest and most heavily used databases. Here are some interesting facts:

In ColdFusion it is very simple and straight forward to store and retrieve images to/from an Oracle database. Here is an example of how you can do it: