0 Oracle Database: Write arbitrary log messages to the syslog from PL/SQL
Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages,…
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0 Newly released: Oracle Exadata X8-2 – bigger disks for saving money, expanding capacity
Earlier this month, Oracle announced the availability of the latest Exadata machine, the X8-2. As well as the option to…
0 Extremely convenient way to run free Oracle Database 18c on your laptop – or anywhere else – using Vagrant & Virtual Box
Oracle Database 18c XE (eXpress Edition) is the free community edition of the enterprise edition of Oracle Database. Oracle Database…
5 Quickly developing and hosting your friendly neighbourhood application – for free using … Oracle APEX
My challenge: my wife wants to set up a system for some of our friends and relatives to let each…
2 Querying connected data in Graph databases with Neo4j
TL;DR; · Graph databases are ideal for query use cases with data with complex relationships and layers of connections ·…
3 Oracle APEX: the low-code and low-cost application middle tier
Oracle APEX is a low code application development framework. It can be used free of charge – either as part…
2 How to deploy InfluxDB in Azure using a VM service with dedicated storage
InfluxDB isn’t natively supported on Azure. This blog post will teach you how to deploy InfluxDB (or any other…
8 A DBA’s first steps in Jenkins
My Customer wanted an automated way to refresh an application database to a known state, to be done by non-technical…
0 Prepare and link bind Oracle Database Cloud, Application Container Cloud, Application Container Cache and Event Hub
A fairly common combination of Oracle Public Cloud services that I use together – for example for the implementation of…
11 Run Oracle Database in Docker using prebaked image from Oracle Container Registry–a two minute guide
This article will show how to run an Oracle Database on a Docker host using the prebaked images on Oracle…
1 Quick introduction to Oracle Container Registry–running one of Oracle’s prebaked images
Oracle has been active with Docker for quite some time now. From the first hesitant steps from some enthusiastic employees…
1 Oracle 12c STIG Password Generator in PL/SQL
Creating or modifying an Oracle Database user password can be done by using any standard password generator you can find…
0 The state of the flagship as per Oracle OpenWorld 2016 – Oracle Database 12c Release 2, Exadata Express Cloud Service, SQL and PL/SQL
The new 12cR2 release of Oracle Database had already been announced and discussed at length over the past year. And…
0 How to create a private 10 Gb network on an ODA X5-2
In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network…
0 Network considerations on an ODA X5-2
When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times…
1 AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon Conference – Session Resource Repository
Below you will find an overview of all the sessions that took place at the AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon conference…
1 Oracle Cloud – DBaaS instance down for no apparent reason – (how archive log mode and storage shortage forced the instance to its knees)
My Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS instance did not respond. On closer investigation, it turned out to be down. Mounting the…
2 Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database (I)
In this Blog I will explore the possibilities to apply Continuous Delivery (CD) for the Oracle database. What is Continuous…
2 Create and Run Docker Container with Node.js and Node Oracle DB Driver from Windows using Vagrant and VirtualBox
My objective: be able to very quickly run Node.js applications that can connect to an Oracle Database – with minimal…
8 REST API on Node.js and Express for data retrieved from Oracle Database with node-oracledb Database Driver running on Application Container Cloud
This article is a follow up on my previous article Linking Application Container Cloud to DBaaS – Expose REST API…