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ODC Appreciation Day : Javascript in the database

By Franck Pachot . Tim Hall has launched the idea to post small blogs this day, from all the Oracle community, about an Oracle feature. I choose one feature that is only released in beta test(…)

Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . Larry Ellison has announced Oracle 18c to be the Autonomous Database, the no-human labor, and self-driven, database. Here is a quick recap of what it is behind the marketing words. My opinion only.

ODA X7

By Franck Pachot . ODA X6-2 So, the ODA X6 End of Life seems to be planned for October, and be careful, as far as I know, this concerns also the storage expansion. The main feedback from the X6-2 series(…)

Oracle 18c RU and RUR for pioneers and followers

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post, I explained the announcement of the new release model, with Release Updates and Release Update Revisions replacing Proactive Bundle Patch and PSUs. Here is a description that will(…)

“_suppress_identifiers_on_dupkey” – the SAP workaround for bad design

By Franck Pachot . In SQL, 'upsert' is a conditional insert or update: if the row is there, you update it, but if it is not there, you insert it. In Oracle, you should use a MERGE statement for that.

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service – Compute Edition

In this blog post, we will see how to create a Big Data cluster through the Oracle Cloud Services. If you want more details about the Oracle Big Data cloud services offering, you can refer to my previous blog(…)

Introduction to Oracle Big Data Services

Since few years, Oracle decided to move forward in the Big Data area, as their main competitor. The goal of this blog post is to explain you, how the Oracle Big Data offering is composed. As the Oracle Big Data(…)

When deterministic function is not

By Franck Pachot . When you declare a function-based index, the function is deterministic, which means that calling it with same arguments will always return the same result. This is required because the indexed values, which are the result of(…)

Using WebLogic 12C RESTful management for monitoring WebLogic Domains

WebLogic 12.2.1 provides a new RESTful management interface with full accesses to all WebLogic Server resources. This interface offers an alternative to the WLST scripting or JMX developments for the management and the monitoring of WebLogic Domains. The following of(…)

Am I a DBA 3.0 or just an SQL*DBA?

By Franck Pachot . There are currently a lot of new buzz words and re-namings which suggest that our DBA role is changing, most of them escorted with a #cloud hashtag. Oracle Technology Network is now called Oracle Developer Community.