Tag: Database

As of Oracle database release update 19.18 a new authentication method was made available utilizing Azure AD (Entry ID as its named by Microsoft recently) Oauth tokens. Using this …

Yesterday Oracle released their latest Autonomous database offering in a container image to try (most of) the Automous database technology without requiring access to the Oracle Cloud (OCI). This …

The core Formula One data could be represented in a graph like this: Drivers compete in races that are hosted on circuits. A result is achieved by the driver …

My fellow Oracle ACE Directors and former AMIS-colleagues Patrick Barel and Alex Nuijten have co-authored an impressive book: The book discusses many of the wonders of SQL and PL/SQL …

In an earlier article, I showed how to quickly get going with an Oracle Database 23c Free instance in a Gitpod workspace – cloud based, ephemeral, quick start, zero …

Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …

Two colleagues wanted to try out Kubernetes and more specifically deployment of an application on Kubernetes that was not entirely trivial. One that consists of at least two Pods …

I have been struggling a bit with this one: how to connect from a Go application to an Oracle Database – both a locally running database as well as …

Build is an overloaded term in the world of software engineering. Building software used to be mainly a fancy way of saying “programming”. Now after the construction of the …

This is a quick how-to article on setting up RMAN to backup to Object Storage on OCI. This is applicable when you build your on Oracle database on an …

This morning I discovered a new entry in the menu on my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tenancy (on Ashburn, USA): the NoSQL Database service had been added overnight. The service …

Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that …

Earlier this month, Oracle announced the availability of the latest Exadata machine, the X8-2. As well as the option to swap in big 14 TB disks in older versions …

Oracle Database 18c XE (eXpress Edition) is the free community edition of the enterprise edition of Oracle Database. Oracle Database XE has almost all features of Oracle Database; however, …

My challenge: my wife wants to set up a system for some of our friends and relatives to let each other know about appliances and things they can share …

TL;DR; · Graph databases are ideal for query use cases with data with complex relationships and layers of connections · Its query language is fast, efficient and allows for …

Oracle APEX is a low code application development framework. It can be used free of charge – either as part of an existing Oracle Database license or running in …

  InfluxDB isn’t natively supported on Azure. This blog post will teach you how to deploy InfluxDB (or any other database) in a VM  with a managed disk on …

My Customer wanted an automated way to refresh an application database to a known state, to be done by non-technical personnel. As a DBA I know a lot of …

A fairly common combination of Oracle Public Cloud services that I use together – for example for the implementation of microservices – is DBaaS, Application Container Cloud, Application Cache …

This article will show how to run an Oracle Database on a Docker host using the prebaked images on Oracle Continer Registry. It is my expectation that it takes …

Oracle has been active with Docker for quite some time now. From the first hesitant steps from some enthusiastic employees with Docker build files that helped people to get …

Creating or modifying an Oracle Database user password can be done by using any standard password generator you can find on the WEB. But I wanted a password to …

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 …

In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network to optimize network performance between the components running on …

When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times 10Gb copper Ethernet (bonded into two interfaces) for public …

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 …

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. …

In this Blog I will explore the possibilities to apply Continuous Delivery (CD) for the Oracle database. What is Continuous Delivery? The introduction on Wikipedia Continuous Delivery says: “Continuous …

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 …

This article is a follow up on my previous article Linking Application Container Cloud to DBaaS – Expose REST API from node.js application leveraging node-oracle-database driver. That article describes …

JDBC URLs used in JDBC database connections in IDEs like JDeveloper and in JDBC Data Source definitions in Java EE servers such as WebLogic Server will typically use the …

In this article I will tell you how to get up and running with the Oracle Database as a Service Cloud offering. How in 30 minutes of your own …

The Oracle OpenWorld conference is an annual milestone for Oracle Corporation, for AMIS as well as for many others in our community. A moment to reevaluate our IT strategy …

The Oracle OpenWorld 2015 conference in the last week of October 2015 was full to the brim with announcements, demonstrations, brainstorms, roadmaps, visions and other Oracle technology related activities. …

This article gives an overview of some of the most eye catching stories from Oracle OpenWorld 2015 around Data Management. It discusses on premises products such as Oracle Database …

Time has always been an important dimension for data in any database with topics like when was data created, when are records valid, how did records evolve over time, …

Monday June 22nd was the launch date for Oracle for 24 (and more) Cloud Services. June is traditionally an important month for Oracle when it comes to product launches …

or Some Musings on the Security Implications of Oracle Database Initialization Parameters Still following the steps of a database installation, this article will muse about some Initialization Parameters with …

Oracle Database can act as an HTTP server – using the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (the 10g successor of the MOD_PLSQL gateway). With just a few statements, we can have …