Martin Bach

Java devs, please instrument your code 🥺

While preparing a talk for Java developers I revisited the topic of code instrumentation. Within the…
ORA-942 in MLE/JavaScript, but the query runs fine in my IDE! What gives?

This article is part of the upcoming Troubleshooting JavaScript chapter that should soon make it into…
Successfully Using SQLcl Projects If Your Production Branch Isn’t Called “main”

This short note demonstrates that the the production branch name is configurable in SQLcl projects. If…
Intro to Post-Execution Debugging in SQL Developer for VSCode

Post-execution debugging has been an integral feature in Multilingual Engine/JavaScript from the very beginning. It allows…
Life hack: encode a URL in a QR code using APEX

Someone in the community once said to me that APEX is awesome even if you’re not…
Using Ansible to resize the root LV on Oracle Linux 9 in OCI

While preparing an upcoming talk at a community event I worked on some Terraform code I…
JavaScript Handler Functions in ORDS: Pay Attention to Data Types

In the past few weeks, I have written several articles covering JavaScript handlers in Oracle REST…
New DEBUG flag simplifies troubleshooting ORDS container image issues

I previously wrote about troubleshooting the ORDS (Oracle REST Data Services) container’s entrypoint, e.g. the script…
Inline JavaScript and some further details about code delimiters

I recently attended POUG 2025, perhaps the most technical conference in Europe with focus on Oracle…
Identify driver details of your cloud VM’s block devices

While preparing a presentation for POUG 2025 I had a need to find out more about…