Swiss Cheese vs Oracle
"Oracle is years behind Microsoft and other companies on security," said Cesar Cerrudo, CEO at information security services company Argeniss in Argentina. "I think Oracle is an amateur when it comes to security right now."
Oracle patched 101 security flaws this quarter - which is more holes than the slice of delicious cheddar cheese has to the left.
Of course all this patching means downtime for your database server - bad news! So what kind of things do you need to consider when thinking about high availability on a database platform? Well one of them is patching time and also security and whilst I'm on the topic we've got a pretty good whitepaper on it here: https://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/compare/oracle/dbavailability.mspx