Cloud

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…
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…
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…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: establish a console connection to a Windows compute VM

You may occasionally run into issues with a Windows 2022 (or later) compute VM in Oracle…
Use Flashback Time Travel with Autonomous Database

This is a very short post, mainly for my own benefit, to summarise how to use…
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…
Enable the MongoDB API on Always-Free Autonomous Database

Oracle Database API for MongoDB translates the MongoDB wire protocol into SQL statements that are executed…
Jump-start developing APEX apps using MLE/JavaScript: Autonomous Database