Linux
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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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Protecting ORDS REST Endpoints with OAuth 2.0-the Modern Way
I have previously protected Oracle REST Data Services endpoints using the OAUTH management APIs. These have…
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WebAssembly in Oracle AI Database: image manipulation using photon
WebAssembly support is available with Oracle AI Database 26ai! The latest Release Update (RU), 23.26.4, adds…
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Creating copies of your multi-TB databases doesn’t have to take forever
Back in the day when I worked as a production DBA I vividly remember all the…
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Downloading AutoUpgrade in Ansible playbooks
Mike Dietrich just announced a new AutoUpgrade release. If you haven’t heard about AutoUpgrade yet, you…
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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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Observations concerning PostgreSQL transactional DDL and concurrency
Recently, while browsing my feed on LinkedIn I came across a post dealing with PostgreSQL transactional…
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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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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…
