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Hussain,
As someone who has to support third party, purchased applications it is my firm belief that you want to make this as transparent as possible. Why, because no data system purchased today will operate in a vacuum. They have to be integrated into the remainder of the applications that the purchaser has. May I take a case in point?
We've recently acquired a copy of SmartTime, a labor tracking application. Well this application needs data from both our HR system and ERP system as well as feeding data back into ERP. Now the vendor is not going to create those interfaces, but they did provide help in identifying the tables in their application that that we need to interface to. Without being able to see the database definitions we would not have been able to do that & consequently would have gone elsewhere.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Hussain Ahmed Qadri [mailto:hussain_at_skm.org.pk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Securing the Database Structure
Hi all,
When you develop a software and you intend to sell it, are there any ways of saving your database structure. Because obviously we don't give the fmb's, we only give the executable. But to run the software we need to have the database and there are ways by which the database structure can be seen, imp/exp is an example for one. I know by getting the database structure it would be very difficult to interpret the system, but structure is the core of the whole thing. So I wanted to ask what are the steps that are followed when you are packaging your software to sell and what are the security measures to protect your application, forms, database structures, etc.
Plus any good method/utility to encrypt the contents of a batch file but at the same time allowing it to be executed.
Thanks and regards,
Hussain
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Author: Hussain Ahmed Qadri
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