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  • What’s new in Multilingual Engine 23.5: Operator Overloading

    New features are introduced to JavaScript/Multilingual Engine (MLE) in Oracle Database 23ai constantly, even though they might not always be end-user visible. With the availability of Release Update 5 (Oracle Database 23.5.0) and later, a few important changes worth reporting have made it, and you can use them, too :) This blog post introduces improvements to the…

  • Starting Oracle Database 23ai Free at boot time

    This question has come up in the forums recently and it’s a good reminder to post a short article how to ensure that your Oracle Database 23ai Free instance starts automatically with your Linux virtual machine. This post is relevant to you if you: use a custom virtual machine (e.g. not Oracle’s pre-built virtual appliance for VirtualBox) want to…

  • Enable True Cache using Oracle Database 23ai Free container images

    Oracle True Cache is one of the many exciting features available with Oracle Database 23ai. If you’d like to see how it looks and feels, you can use Oracle Database 23ai Free to give it a go. This post describes how to do exactly that using the following stack (updated 250402) Oracle Linux 9.5/Linux x86-64 Rootless Podman 5.2.2 (ships with Oracle…

  • Jump-start developing APEX apps using MLE/JavaScript: Autonomous Database

  • What’s new in Multilingual Engine 23.5: support for sql-template-tag

    New features are introduced to JavaScript/Multilingual Engine (MLE) in Oracle Database 23ai constantly, even though they might not always be end-user visible. With the availability of Release Update 5 (Oracle Database 23.5.0) and later, a few important changes worth reporting have made it, and you can use them, too :) This blog post demonstrates how to…

  • Create MLE/JavaScript modules using Liquibase

    Multilingual Engine, or MLE for short, allows developers to use the hugely popular JavaScript language to write server-side code since Oracle Database 23ai has been released for Linux/Intel and Linux/Arm. Oracle AI Database 26ai continues to enhance MLE functionality. With the introduction of MLE/JavaScript in Oracle AI Database, you have 3 languages available to store…

  • Configuring a custom location for biomejs in VSCode

    Biome is one of my favourite JavaScript development tools. It comes with an extension that integrates nicely with Visual Studio Code, currently my editor of choice. The VSCode extension assumes that Biome is present at the project’s root directory, which is fine most of the time. There are some occasions though when that’s not the…

  • How to check if Multilingual Engine is available in APEX 24 and later

    This is a short post describing how you can check if your APEX installation supports Multilingual Engine (MLE)/JavaScript. APEX makes it very easy for developers to use MLE: when you create a new workspace you have the option to let APEX create a new schema for you, or use an existing one. Should you decide…

  • Enabling the MongoDB API for ORDS containers just got a lot easier

    Oracle recently published a new container image for running Oracle REST Data Service (ORDS). The new image externalises the ords binary pretty much in the same way you’d use ORDS locally except you don’t need to install its dependencies. This sounds as cool as it is abstract, so let’s see how this works in action. NB: the…

  • Using sqlcl/Liquibase for administrative tasks