Container
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Life hack: don’t install an instant client out of habit, use the Database Free image!
I’m currently writing a small bash script to load a few WebAssembly modules into an Oracle…
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ORDS 26.3.0 container image introduces a new mandatory environment variable
As a user of the Oracle REST Data Service container image I was interested to see…
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Setting initialisation parameters in Oracle AI Database Free container image
I recently had to troubleshoot a vector index creation problem on Oracle AI Database Free. To…
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Solving a common “permission denied” error in rootless podman
Podman is different from docker in that it typically runs its containers rootless. Just as any…
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Enabling outbound network connections in APEX
Modern applications frequently need to access external services from within the database. In distributed architectures, those…
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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…
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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…
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JavaScript showcase: a fun playground environment for MLE/JavaScript in Oracle AI Database 26ai
I’m a huge fan of Oracle’s SQL Developer Extension for VSCode. I use it on a…
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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,…
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Creating column-level annotations on views
While updating my slides covering “what’s new in Oracle AI Database 26ai” I noticed that examples…
