Have you had a good Summer? Here’s a round up of the blogs that have caught my eye over July and August: Why you simply can’t upgrade from Oracle 11g or 12c to Oracle 23c Mike Dietrich shares why this isn’t just a simple upgrade. You MUST upgrade to Oracle…
News from May 2022
Blogs of the Month qgis with Oracle Cloud Database “One of these complex situations is the connection to an Always Free Autonomous Database. Oracle tries to secure the database access, so by default it does not allow a simple connection with host, port, service_name and username/password. Instead a wallet is provided…
April’s Blogs
Blogs of the Month Building a REST API with ORDS, PL/SQL Functions, & Arrays Jeff Smith shares how to build a REST API that return a JSON array list of strings. 2. Configuring Nginx on AWS EC2 for Oracle GoldenGate 21c This blog begins with: “When installed, Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices) will…
Autumn Days…
Blogs of the month 1.10 Best Database Management Software of 2021 (+ Examples) This blog lists the Best Database Management Software as: ManageEngine Applications Manager DBeaver Raima Database Manager Valentina Redis Enterprise DbVisualizer Oracle Database Database Labs Sadas Engine Percona Monitoring and Management and gives an extensive overview of each….
Latest OAC Features and Updates
New Features and Updates for Oracle Analytics See the release announcement. A summary: Oracle Analytics Cloud Release 6. 0 is a significant update. Highlights include: 1. Extended data management capabilities 2. Custom Knowledge 3. Data Quality Insights With every release, OAC includes User Experience enhancements and new visualizations. Highlights for…
Best of last year
Here is my take on the good reading stuff from last year. Obviously there is a bit of a covid theme to a lot of the blogs I read, but also some great tech updates. Learn how Oracle used APEX to quickly launch its COVID-19 therapeutic app Read about how…
Get Oracle Software
The Linux Problem I have nothing against Linux, but… When you want software from Oracle and you have a windows machine, you just browse to the oracle website, hit the download, boom you have your software. But from Linux? I have tried different methods over the years, including download to…
Graph Database Install
Fail! So I installed the Spatial and Graph server available on the Marketplace https://console.uk-london-1.oraclecloud.com/marketplace/application/75067377/overview It installed, but couldn’t get it to do anything. No connection worked. So, I thought thats OK I will just install it myself, and I saw the documentation in Oracle database 20c, https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/20/spgdg/property-graph-overview-spgdg.html#GUID-FF149F69-574D-43B8-B888-4CCD019DAE56 that the graph…
Latest blogs and videos
Just a few for these chilly October/November evenings … Blogs of the Week 1. Announcing Oracle APEX 20.2 Joel Kallman shares (the original post is here) : “This release of APEX introduces several new features and enhancements to help developers be more productive than ever before. From the all new Cards…
Graph Databases for Analytics Developers
Database trends come and go over the years, dressed up as the new thing to take down the good old fashioned relational database system. New ways to store and retrieve data pop up, gain some interest, and then end up a a niche offering. I have noticed however that some…