Pete Finnigan's Oracle Security Weblog

I have known about Yong Huang's web site for some time now as we have exchanged emails in the past on internals and undocumented details. Yong is a great guy who knows a lot about Oracle. He has a great web site dedicated to (mostly) Oracle information, articles, tips and newsgroup postings he has made. I was searching for a piece of information last night for the SANS Oracle security training course I am working on and saw a link to Yong’s site and I opened the page in a window to remind me to take a good look again and see what has been added and changed.

http://www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer.html - (broken link) Yong's site, well the Oracle pages are superb. http://www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/index.html - (broken link) His homepage also details some of his other interests. Yong started out as a PhD graduate and became an Oracle DBA in 1999 and his previous experience was as a web programmer. The site contains details on this.

I will return to Yong’s site in future blog posts as there is a huge amount of content, some internals, some undocumented stuff and also some Oracle security information / bugs etc. I want to talk about some of the individual pages again later. I have already three links for quite a long time to Yongs site on my Oracle Security white papers page. These are to Yong’s Oracle Idiosyncrasies page, his http://www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer/oraclebin.html - (broken link) Oracle Executables page and his http://www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer/x$table.html - (broken link) Speculation of X$ Table Names page. These pages include some great research into Oracle internals. http://www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer.html - (broken link) Yongs Oracle page first includes a section of freeware that includes pstats for Windows, pio and topio for Solaris and Windows and Windows oerr for Oracle. His Oracle database section includes Q&A tips, Oracle idiosyncrasies, an under construction section that includes investigations into tracing Oracle processes on Windows and Unix. Pages on Miscellaneous Oracle Notes, X$ tables, Oracle binaries, Oracle and Perl and much much more. Yong also has a miscellaneous section and a web programming section.

This is a great site for a browse and worth taking a look. I will talk again in later posts about some of Yong’s findings.