Only 3 weeks left until Christmas. Hope all the preparations are well underway. In the meantime, have a break from the decorating, shopping and wrapping and read the latest blogs and articles. And of course, enjoy a little Christmas joke: Who hides in the bakery at Christmas? A Mince Spy!…

Although it’s only November, the shops are filled with Christmas items, the decorations are up in all the major towns and the shopping is in full swing. So, we obviously need a Christmas joke to go with the non-Christmas blogs this week. What did Father Christmas say to his wife…

“I keep pressing escape. But I’m still here…” Read on for the latest news and blogs, including how Oracle Cloud helps illycaffè deliver ‘world’s best coffee’!! Blogs of the week 1. SEO for Single Page Oracle (SPA) JET Application Andrejus Baranovskij says, “This is a quick tip post related to Oracle…

Why was the computer cold?It left its Windows open! Here’s the latest… Blogs of the week What is Preview Versions for Autonomous Database Julian Dontcheff writes, “A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for producers, directors and actors. In the IT world, it is exactly the opposite: DBAs can…

  Today is Oracle GroundBreakers Appreciation Day. We’re all spreading the love with the hashtag #thanksOGB I’d like to extend my thank you to all the bloggers and tweeters who make up this community – just a few of which are featured below. Keep up the great work! Here’s this…

A password cracker walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then a Beer. Then a BEER. beer. b33r. BeeR. Be3r. bEeR. bE3R. BeEr The keynote for the #UKOUGAnalytics Modernisation Summit has been announced! Oracle’s Duncan Fitter will be providing an update on the World Bee Project, talking about how the…

I think my neighbour is stalking me as she’s been googling my name on her computer. I saw it through my telescope last night. #OOW2019 has been and gone.  But UKOUG Analytics Modernisation Summit will be upon us soon. See the agenda here. Are you going to the Analytics Modernisation…

Did you hear about the monkeys who shared an Amazon account? They were Prime mates. Onto this week’s blogs, news and videos… Blogs of the week pgbench retry for repeatable read transactions — first (re)tries Franck Pachot begins by saying, “In a previous post I was running pgBench on YugaByteDB in serializable…

A few of the latest for your enjoyment… Blogs of the week 1. Oracle JET – How To Reference JavaScript Module in HTML Andrejus Baranovskis says, “I will explain how to reference JavaScript module function in Oracle JET HTML. In previous Oracle JET versions, we were using $root to access…