Today I took the DBA Masterclass Quiz (truthfully just a bit too easy…) and earned the above badge from Oracle.
Oracle put on a three class event that was fun and informative. You can watch the recordings even though the live presentations are finished.
For me, one of the best outcomes was connecting directly with Russ Lowenthal (@RussLowenthall), a member of the Database Security Team, and have a great conversation about fixing the whole tls_wallet (or ssl_wallet if you are a bit older) issue with requiring DBAs to download root and intermediate certs so that the database can access TLS encrypted URLs. I presented Russ with some interesting ideas which he said the database team at Oracle would consider for future releases. Basically we’d all like the ability for the database to ‘just work’ with signed URLs the same way your browser just works.
Here’s to hoping the security team gets around to fixing this!
Cars and Code 
October 9th, 2020 at 12:10 pm
This would be one of the best changes to Oracle Database from a Developer’s POV. Having to ask a DBA every-time I want to send a web request to a URL from the database is one my my least liked “features” of Oracle DB.
“Basically we’d all like the ability for the database to ‘just work’ with signed URLs the same way your browser just works.”
– This this this, x1000.
June 1st, 2021 at 2:05 am
hey bro, have u watched master calsses 2021 if yes did u find the quiz link?
R
October 11th, 2022 at 2:20 pm
I didn’t see if there was a new one, so I’m not sure what the link might be.