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Fun with SQL Firewall in Oracle

Brendan Tierney follows up on a SQL Firewall post:

In a previous post, we’ve explored some of the core functionality of SQL Firewall in Oracle 23ai, In this post I’ll explore some of the other functionality that I’ve had to use as we’ve deployed SQL Firewall over the past few weeks.

Sometimes, when querying the DBA_SQL_FIREWALL_VIOLATIONS view, you might not get the current up to-date violations, or if you are running it for the first time you might get now rows or violations being returned from the view. This is a slight timing issue, as the violations log/cacbe might not have been persisted to the data dictionary. If you end up in this kind of situation you might need to flush the logs to to data dictionary. To do this, run the following.

Click through for that command, as well as a few other scenarios and commands that may be of interest.

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