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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…
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…
Thementage 2025: CI/CD demo part 2

The first part of this mini-series dealt with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in the context of database…
Thementage 2025: CI/CD demo part 1

I am, and have been, an admirer of Andrea Held’s conferences, both IT Tage in Frankfurt…
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…
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…
Troubleshooting the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API

Sometimes, it can be interesting to learn how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) API works, particularly…