Development
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Thementage 2025: CI/CD demo part 1
I am, and have been, an admirer of Andrea Held’s conferences, both IT Tage in Frankfurt…
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