Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Copyright PeteFinnigan.com Ltd 2005, All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001634.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com One area I have not covered in previous blogs about Oracle Security and AI is sovereignty of that AI and of course in particular of the data. This means that the control of the hardware (compute and GPU) and the....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001634.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 29/07/26 At 02:20 PM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001633.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com My day to day focus is helping customers secure data in their Oracle databases. As you will have seen from a small number of blogs here recently I have been writing a little about AI and in particular local LLMs....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001633.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 28/07/26 At 08:41 AM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001632.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I am working on a simple password audit tool for Oracle Apex and I have written a simple password cracker in PL/SQL to test if a password is found or not; i.e. is the password weak or not. To allow....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001632.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 23/07/26 At 12:01 PM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001631.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Sometimes in forensic analysis of an Oracle database it is necessary to understand how data is stored on disk. Actually we must understand that if we were to create our own database we might start with a file that holds....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001631.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 13/07/26 At 09:11 AM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001630.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I am running a Mac Book Pro M5 with 64gb of RAM and a 2tb SSD. I wanted to use local LLMs to generate Oracle security related PL/SQL to see how good these models are at generating PL/SQL code and....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001630.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 07/07/26 At 10:43 AM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001629.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com My day job is Oracle security and that covers a massive area of topics from performing security audits, helping customers secure data in their Oracle databases, forensics, building and designing audit trails and reports, secure coding in PL/SQL, encryption of....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001629.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 06/07/26 At 12:56 PM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001628.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com If we have an Oracle database table with no timestamp can we still get a date/time stamp when something happened? For instance if a table has a date/time column then yes of course we can know when the records changed....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001628.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 25/06/26 At 10:53 AM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z tag:,2026-07-29:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001627.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I have been involved with Oracle Database Vault recently with a deployment and I was asked how can someone view the database vault dictionary views when DV is installed. So, if we start with no DV enabled in our database....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001627.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 02/06/26 At 12:49 PM</p> 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 2026-07-29T14:22:02Z PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security.