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Using Podman and Docker Health Checks to Prevent CI Pipeline Failures

I recently experimented with Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines in GitLab, and I needed a way to…
Self-Signed Certificates with ORDS 26.1 on rootless podman

Oracle REST Data Service (ORDS) has recently been updated to release 26.1.0. This is a great…
Updated setup-oracle-sqlcl Action and why it matters for SQLcl projects

This is a short post announcing a small but important change in the way you install…
Quick tip concerning dbms_cloud’s create_credential() call

DBMS_CLOUD is one of the crucial packages in Oracle AI Autonomous Database (ADB from now on).…
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

Oracle AI Database 26ai running on Linux x86-64 and aarch64 allows you to write server-side JavaScript…