Some of the best blogs I’ve read in the last month or so:
This blog begins with, “I started some home lab cleanup this long weekend, and one of the first steps was to set up a separate DNS server for the lab. This is really just to make it easier for me to try some automation tricks without risking breaking the home DNS. This new DNS system will forward requests to my main DNS server and also host DNS for lab.m57.local.
For the first step, lets get the lab it’s own DNS server. For that system, I built a new VM with 4 vCPUs and 8GB of RAM. It’s a little much for a DNS server, but I wanted the system to have plenty of free resources for later.”
2. Oracle APEX: Use saved report name of Interactive Report in Export
Dimitri Gielis answers a question on Twitter about how to use the saved report name in an export of an Interactive Report in Oracle APEX.
3. 23c–Fine Grained Locking–Lock Free Reservations – behind the scene
This blog starts by saying, “Oracle 23c has a very interesting feature: Lock Free Reservations. There are great posts already which explain this feature, I’m more interested on the activities behind.”
For the purposes of this post, we are asked to first read this article.
4.Vector Database Impact on RAG Efficiency: A Simple Overview
Andrej Baranovskij shares this YouTube video:
5. How to to Run Oracle Database 23c FREE on M1 / M2 Apple Mac
Ron Ekins shares how to run the Oracle Database 23c FREE database on Apple M2.
6. Oracle OCI Product Tours Page
This blog shares a link to the new OCI Product Tours Page plus a reminder of the Analytics Live Demos page.
7. Extract OCI Monitoring Metrics Using REST APIs
In the previous post, Alfredo Krieg showed us how to create custom metrics in order to monitor a Standby database. Those steps detailed how to ingest (post) metrics to the OCI Monitoring service.
He begins this post with, “In this post I’ll show you how you can list metric definitions and how you can extract metric data from the Monitoring service. This metric extraction is really useful when you need to integrate the Monitoring service with 3rd party tools.”
8. Export from 11g and import to 19c
This blog begins with, “In this article, we are going to learn how to export from 11g and import to 19c. As you know the Oracle DATA PUMP is a very powerful tool and using the Export and Import method we can load the from the lower Oracle database version to the higher Oracle Database version and vice versa.”
Pete Finnigan shares a link to these slides about Oracle Database Password Security and Oracle Security White Papers.
10. Accounts Payable Transaction in Oracle Cloud FSCM
This blog begins with: “The Accounts Payable (AP) module is used to administer payment for products or services while preventing double payment. The module contains a detailed history of accounts, giving vendors the background required to resolve issues and improve the flow of goods and payments.”