Container

More good reasons to use bind variables in cursors in Oracle

Bind variables are a best practice in Oracle database development. They offer significant benefits in performance,…
Creating column-level annotations on views

While updating my slides covering “what’s new in Oracle AI Database 26ai” I noticed that examples…
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…
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…
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.
Your local development environment: Oracle Database 23ai Free on WSL2

Recently I posted a few tweets about my experience developing on windows. That’s something new to…
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…
Putty-like SSH port forwarding on Linux and MacOS

As a Linux or Mac user you benefit from a very useful, built-in terminal and SSH…