0 Oracle Database – more value for money and more value for free
Oracle is not known for low prices or free products. However, when it comes to the Oracle Database there are…
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1 Oracle Cloud Always Free Autonomous Data Warehouse – steps to get going
Last month, Oracle announced it’s Cloud Free Tier on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This free tier offers several services (compute,…
1 Monitoring Oracle Database using Prometheus
Prometheus is a very popular framework for gathering metrics from a plethora of runtime components, recording, analyzing, visualizing them and…
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…
0 CQRS through Twitter – more fun than meaning
As part of my 50 Shades of Data presentation, I talk about CQRS – Command Query Responsibility Segregation. The idea…
0 Quickly spinning up Docker Containers with baseline Oracle Database Setup – for performing automated tests
Here is a procedure for running an Oracle Database, preparing a baseline in objects (tables, stored procedures) and data, creating…
0 Dbvisit Standby upgrade
Upgrading to Dbvisit Standby 8.0.x Dbvisit provides upgrade documentation which is detailed and in principle correct but only describes the…
0 Getting started with Oracle Database in a Docker container!
One of the benefits of using Docker is quick and easy provisioning. I wanted to find out first-hand if this…
0 Oracle Database standard Geo Location Support using Locator (included in every edition!)
Many databases have native support for locations en geodata – and determining distance and closest locations (within a certain perimeter).…
1 Fastest creation of a Lean VirtualBox VM Image with Oracle Database 11gR2 XE, the Node.JS 7.x and the Oracle DB Driver for Node
For a workshop on Node.js I needed a VM to demonstrate and students try out the Oracle DB Driver for…
0 Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is out – just only on the cloud
The next major release of the Oracle Database has always been a big thing. Last year at Oracle OpenWorld [2015],…
0 New PL/SQL pragma (12cR2) to deprecate program units – sign of a modern programming language
Bryn Llewellyn (Distinguished Product Manager, Database Division, Oracle) presented at OOW2016 on new features in PL/SQL in Oracle Database 12cR2.…
0 Set values for bind parameters in a database view using application context – single round-trip context manipulation and querying
While writing an article on database session context for the OTech Magazine’s Spring issue, I tried out whether I can…
1 When to use the Oracle Database In-Memory option?
The application and usage of the Oracle Database In-Memory has been described by Pom Bleeksma in this post. Oracle Database…
2 Quick generation of a VirtualBox VM with Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 EE on CentOS 5.6
A short time ago, Oracle released Oracle Database 12c – release 12.1.0.2. With a bunch of goodies that I would…
1 Using Oracle’s Edition-Based Redefinition to support multiple SOA Suite revisions with the database adapter
When using the Oracle SOA Suite for web service development, chances are that you are also using an Oracle database…
0 OOW 2012 – Larry Ellison’s Keynote Announcements: Exa, Cloud, Database
Last night, Oracle Open World 2012 kicked off with the keynote session by Larry Ellison. In just under one hour,…