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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…
Observations concerning PostgreSQL transactional DDL and concurrency

Recently, while browsing my feed on LinkedIn I came across a post dealing with PostgreSQL transactional…
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…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: establish a console connection to a Linux compute VM

I previously wrote a short article detailing how to connect to a Windows VM in Oracle…
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…
Avoiding precision loss with MLE/JavaScript in Oracle AI Database 26ai

Oracle AI Database 26ai introduced Multilingual Engine (MLE), allowing you to run JavaScript inside the database.…
Using the operating system’s certificate store in Oracle Database 19c

I previously wrote about Using the Operating System’s certificate store instead of an Oracle wallet in…
Adding self-signed certificates to a wallet became a one-liner in SQLcl 26.1

Before Oracle AI Database 26ai, anyone wanting to make a REST call from the database to…
Life hack: causing utPLSQL to raise an error in case of failed tests

The wonderful Symposium 42 community is always a source of inspiration, kindness and willingness to help.…
Real productivity gains with AI: coding unit tests for your ORDS endpoints

Ever since I first heard about them, I have become a great fan of unit tests,…