Author: Lucas Jellema
The new 12cR2 release of Oracle Database had already been announced and discussed at length over the past year. And now it is finally available. And only as cloud …
User Experience (UX) is a broad term that represents many different interactions humans can have with computer systems. Traditionally UX has been largely based on desktop terminal and keyboard, …
Undeniably, microservices is an extremely hot term. A bandwagon almost every product team at Oracle seems eager to be jumping on to. It is hard to give a concise …
One of the very first capabilities Oracle ever introduced in its PaaS portfolio was integration. It was clear from the onset of any talk about clouds that facilities to …
APIs are hot. Public APIs are an enterprise’s programmatic interface to B2B partners, governments and other stakeholders including app and web builders. Internally, APIs are the touch points for …
On premises BPM Suite has been Oracle’s flagship product for business process automation for many years. Based on the industry standard of BPMN and tightly integrated with SOA Suite …
Custom applications with a user interface can be categorized along various dimensions. Is the user interface a front end for a system of record or a system of change …
Talk of the town during Oracle OpenWorld 2016 definitely included the term Machine Learning. Machine learning was mentioned in every other session it seemed. Sometimes fully justified – and …
Oracle has a broad SaaS portfolio: ready to run business applications that support enterprises in most common aspects of running a business. The flagship SaaS product line is based …
The key theme of Oracle OpenWorld 2016 was Infrastructure . Bigger, better, faster than Amazon WebServices – and cheaper as well. That was the message Oracle tried to drive …
In addition to offering infrastructure services from the cloud, Oracle continues to extend its line of engineered systems. The high end consists of SuperCluster and Exadata, ExaLogic and Exalytics …
Building up a public cloud is quite a challenge. Oracle has faced and overcome many challenges – and it has built up tremendous momentum to tackle the current challenge. …
The IT evolution discussed in my previous article, also resulted in the concept of the cloud. Hard to define exactly, there is general understand that the cloud refers to …
Of course we take all reasonable measures to ensure only people we know gain access to our systems and our data (confidentiality through authentication) and that they do so …
The backdrop for Oracle OpenWorld 2016 – or indeed all IT conferences – is the constant evolution in IT. On many levels – from hardware to philosophy – the …
This is a short article about a big topic. About how JET Composite Components – small or pretty substantial – can be reused and integrated, not only in other …
Apache Spark made numerous appearances in many different sessions during Oracle OpenWorld 2016. It is clear that Oracle is very much embracing and leveraging and endorsing Spark at various …
Events are quite relevant in modern computer architecture. At various levels of the stack. Events can represent various things – from IoT based measurements and logistical updates to web …
The Oracle PaaS cloud is turning into the next generation application server platform. More specifically: Oracle has announced the roadmap for the Application Container Cloud Service (not to be …
The next major release of the Oracle Database has always been a big thing. Last year at Oracle OpenWorld , a lot of sessions were dedicated to Release 2 …
One of the interesting tidbits, somewhat hidden away in Thomas Kurian’s keynote presentation last week at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, is a new member of the Oracle PaaS Cloud Services …
Oracle Database Release 12c (12.1) introduced a new operator that we can use in SQL queries. The MATCH_RECOGNIZE operator allows us to detect patterns in our relational data. Specifically: …
Bryn Llewellyn (Distinguished Product Manager, Database Division, Oracle) presented at OOW2016 on new features in PL/SQL in Oracle Database 12cR2. One of the features that stood out was a …
One of those things SQL developers are frequently looking at is the generation of rows: having a query return records that do not really exist. For example to generate …
This weekend, while preparing for a demo during Oracle OpenWorld 2016, I found a for me new way of publishing a new application to Application Container Cloud: through Storage …
While working on my Ionic 2 application, I made use of the exif.js library (for extracting meta-data from image files). Some of the key functions in this library are …
While working on a Ionic 2 (and Angular 2) application, I needed to make use of a 3rd party library (exif – https://github.com/exif-js/exif-js – to be exact, a JavaScript …
It has been a long standing ambition of mine to create an app that I could run on my iPhone. This weekend I finally realized that ambition – in …
The challenge is simple: users of an ADF Faces web application are only allowed to enter uppercase characters into a field. We want to help them by turning any …
Below you will find an overview of all the sessions that took place at the AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon conference (1-3 June 2016, Katwijk, The Netherlands) along with the …
The Oracle Storage Cloud Service is an IaaS offering that underpins every other PaaS Cloud Service from Oracle. I have been using this service – largely indirectly – with …
Dear manager or team leader of Oracle professionals, If you have Oracle professionals in your team –whether they are DBAs, PL/SQL developers or Middleware & ADF specialists – in …
Beste Oracle professional, Of je nu PL/SQL ontwikkelaar bent, DBA, ADF ontwikkelaar of SOA Suite specialist, de nieuwsgierigheid blijft altijd kriebelen. Hoop ik. Je wilt beter worden in je …
My Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS instance did not respond. On closer investigation, it turned out to be down. Mounting the database ended with an ORA-3113 End of Communication Channel. …
Transferring data between technologies and application tiers is done using various formats – binary, native on the one hand and open, text based such as CSV, XML and JSON …
My objective: be able to very quickly run Node.js applications that can connect to an Oracle Database – with minimal disturbance of my laptop environment (Windows 7). The solution …
Node applications may want to have access to databases – similar to access to the file system, external APIs over HTTP and other resources. Just like Java applications use …
The launch of Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight – a name that suggests Larry’s direct involvement in naming the product – marks the moment at which the integration product …
The Oracle Integration Cloud Service – ICS – comes loaded with a rich collection of Cloud Adapters. These adapters facilitate the integration with SaaS applications and internet services of …
Well organized exchange of client side events has been something of a holy grail for client side web development to me. I do not like these direct interactions between …
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