Strategy And Guidelines For Sheltering Database To Database Communication Through Database Links

The majority of organizations today prefer Oracle database systems to maintain their operational and transactional data. Multiple databases will be used for different fields of operation in an organization. There arise many scenarios where one database will need to access the data stored in another database. Database to database communication is enabled in Oracle database with the help of database links. Among the numerous database products, Oracle database is regarded as a highly secure database. But still it has a few security issues in certain areas, including database links. This presented paper makes an attempt to highlight these security weaknesses and compose plans and guidelines to handle the database link in various situations.