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Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide (Second Edition)

You're reading from   Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide (Second Edition) Master the advanced concepts of PL/SQL for professional-level certification and learn the new capabilities of Oracle Database 12c

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785284809
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Saurabh K. Gupta Saurabh K. Gupta
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Preface 1. Overview of PL/SQL Programming Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Oracle 12c SQL and PL/SQL New Features 3. Designing PL/SQL Code 4. Using Collections 5. Using Advanced Interface Methods 6. Virtual Private Database 7. Oracle SecureFiles 8. Tuning the PL/SQL Code 9. Result Cache 10. Analyzing, Profiling, and Tracing PL/SQL Code 11. Safeguarding PL/SQL Code against SQL injection 12. Working with Oracle SQL Developer Index

Securing External Procedures with Oracle Database 12c


The Oracle Database creates the extproc process and runs under the operating system user, that starts the listener or runs an Oracle server process. Quite often, you will see the extproc process running as the oracle user. The extproc process is not physically associated with the Oracle Database.

Oracle Database 12c enables enhanced security for extproc by authenticating it against a user-supplied credential. This new feature allows the creation of a user credential and associates it with the PL/SQL library object. Whenever the application calls an external procedure, the extproc process authenticates the connection before loading the shared library.

The DBMS_CREDENTIAL package allows the configuration of the credential through member subprograms. The CREATE LIBRARY statement has been enhanced for credential specification. A new environment variable, ENFORCE_CREDENTIAL, can be specified in extproc.ora to control the authentication by the...

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