Preventing Oracle data files from being used on other servers

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Is there a way to encrypt or password protect Oracle database files so that they can not be used in case they were copied to other servers? Thanks

nzwulfin · Answer 1 · 2010-08-27 13:29:19Z

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Check out DBMS_CRYPTO and Transparent Data Encryption in 10g.

answered Aug 27 '10 at 13:29

TDE will solve my needs. Thank you very much. – Iyad Aug 27 '10 at 13:54

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kmarsh · Answer 2 · 2010-08-27 13:39:47Z

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Besides internal encryption, you can consider an encrypted filesystem, that only the "oracle" user has access to.

I could suggest a few but you didn't list the host operating system.

answered Aug 27 '10 at 13:39

kmarsh
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I am using Windows server so I can use EFS. Thanks. – Iyad Aug 27 '10 at 14:03

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