Tag: oracle database
The production database is the holy grail of any organisation or at least any microservice or business application. The data and the current structures and definitions of the database …
I bet you are used to relational data structures that you query using SQL. And so do I. And there is nothing in terms of data that a good …
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 …
This should surprise if not baffle you. Session 1 inserts a record and commits it. Session 1 performs an update on this record. And does not yet commit its …
A new major Oracle Database release is a special occasion. I joined Oracle in May 1994 just after the Oracle7 release (December 1993) although I worked with Oracle6 for …
I recently tried to get Unified Auditing going for Oracle Database XE. I could not really find instructions – not even through ChatGPT – and finally reached out to …
This article describes how you can run your very own Oracle Database from your browser using Gitpod. With a free account (50 hours Gitpod use per month), you can …
Based on the fascinating Twitter thread by Philipp Salvisberg covering the presentation by Gerald Venzl at DOAG 2022 I would like to mention a few of the features that …
After upgrading to Oracle 12c, 19c, database connections take a long time (10 sec or more), before the connections are established. The connection time was less than 0.5 sec …
Oracle Database Release 7 – end of 1993 – introduced PL/SQL as language for Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers. This was just before I joined Oracle Corporation, in May …
A nice SQL challenge was presented to me by a colleague. The challenges basically consisted of this table. A table contains records that describe login events. Each record has …
Oracle Database 21c has been released – for now only in the cloud. Starting to explore – that is what we call playing with it – it easy and …
Oracle is not known for low prices or free products. However, when it comes to the Oracle Database there are some developments that might be of interest to you. …
Last month, Oracle announced it’s Cloud Free Tier on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This free tier offers several services (compute, storage, network, monitoring & notifications, serverless functions and Autonomous …
Prometheus is a very popular framework for gathering metrics from a plethora of runtime components, recording, analyzing, visualizing them and making them available for companion technologies such as Grafana. …
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, …
As part of my 50 Shades of Data presentation, I talk about CQRS – Command Query Responsibility Segregation. The idea that you can have one or more read only …
Here is a procedure for running an Oracle Database, preparing a baseline in objects (tables, stored procedures) and data, creating an image of that baseline and subsequently running containers …
Upgrading to Dbvisit Standby 8.0.x Dbvisit provides upgrade documentation which is detailed and in principle correct but only describes the upgrade process from the viewpoint of an installation on …
One of the benefits of using Docker is quick and easy provisioning. I wanted to find out first-hand if this could help me get an Oracle Enterprise Edition database …
Many databases have native support for locations en geodata – and determining distance and closest locations (within a certain perimeter). Oracle Database has the Spatial Option – that supports …
For a workshop on Node.js I needed a VM to demonstrate and students try out the Oracle DB Driver for Node. I wanted a lean VM with the bare …
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 …
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 …
While writing an article on database session context for the OTech Magazine’s Spring issue, I tried out whether I can send a SQL statement from a database consumer such …
The application and usage of the Oracle Database In-Memory has been described by Pom Bleeksma in this post. Oracle Database In-Memory can result in huge improvement in application query …
A short time ago, Oracle released Oracle Database 12c – release 12.1.0.2. With a bunch of goodies that I would like to try out. This release can be downloaded …
When using the Oracle SOA Suite for web service development, chances are that you are also using an Oracle database and that you are at some point in need …
Last night, Oracle Open World 2012 kicked off with the keynote session by Larry Ellison. In just under one hour, and with a novelty for Larry watchers (no more …
