Automation

Using Oracle Database Free in your devcontainer and GitHub Codespaces

Dev containers are pretty nifty when it comes to keeping your development environment isolated from the…
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…
Troubleshooting errors in ORDS container image entrypoint

I’m a huge fan of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) and use it extensively. I’m also…
Sourcing environment variables from .env in compose

I am a great fan of {podman,docker}-compose. Using compose I can whip up environments in no…
Containers are awesome, not only for stateless things

This post describes why using containers, even for database driven applications, is very useful.
Loading MLE modules into the database got a lot easier with SQLcl 24.3.2
Troubleshooting the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API

Sometimes, it can be interesting to learn how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) API works, particularly…
Configuring a custom location for biomejs in VSCode

Biome is one of my favourite JavaScript development tools. It comes with an extension that integrates…
Cloning PDBs with TDE enabled just got a lot easier with ORDS
Jump-start developing APEX apps using MLE/JavaScript: Containers

Support for In-Database JavaScript is one of the most exciting new features in Oracle Database 23c…