"A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct? ..."
InfoWorld has been sitting on story before revealing a "Fundamental Oracle Flaw" so that Oracle could fix the problem. The patch was released at 1pm PT on January 17. The problem had to do with what’s called the Systems Change Number (SCN), this is the linchpin that makes sure all information is synced and current within one database or several databases sharing information. All Oracle DBAs must apply the hot-backup patch, for older databases this may mean an upgrade.
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Oracle's January 2012 Critical Patch Update provides fixes for 78 new security vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Oracle products families, Eric Maurice posts. These included Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle JDEdwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Virtualization, Oracle Sun product suite, and Oracle MySQL. He points out that security fixes for Java SE continue to be released on a different schedule because of commitments made before the completion of the Sun acquisition.
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In the absence of a Flash Archive Installation (FLAR) in Oracle Solaris 11, jbutler draws readers' attention to a set of steps that can be utilized to create re-deployable archives of installed systems. FLAR, Butler writes, was initially meant to simplify patch deployment, a notably difficult process in patching a Solaris system. FLAR allows a system administrator to patch up a system and then create an archive of it, which can be used to install subsequent systems. One side effect of this is that a full archive of the given system is created, which can be utilized to restore the system in case of catastrophic failure. In this way, many admins have utilized FLAR as an element of their disaster recovery plan. The remedy Butler cites is "How to Perform System Archival and Recovery Procedures with Oracle Solaris 11." Butler describes this document as containing " ... a set of operations which can be scripted if required. Otherwise, the manual steps described therein may be utilized as a stop-gap until some of the functionality finds its way into Solaris 11."
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A post on the Patch Corner of oracle.com announces the creation of The Solaris 11 Life blog where readers can learn about all aspects of the Solaris 11 Customer Maintenance Lifecycle, including policies, best practices, resource links, clarifications, and other pertinent matters. In the first post on the site, Gerry Haskins includes a presentation on the Solaris 11 Customer Maintenance Lifecycle presentation, originally given at Oracle Open World and the recent Deutsche Oracle Anwendergruppe (DOAG) conference.
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Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0, the first release providing extended high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11. Oracle Solaris Cluster works by extending Oracle Solaris to provide the HA and DR infrastructure required for deploying mission critical workloads in private, public and hybrid clouds as well as enterprise data centers. Among the other strong points of the solution are built-in support for cloud implementations and cloud-ready application protection through fine-grained monitoring and policy-based application management, along with restart and failover capabilities.
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