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ORA-942 in MLE/JavaScript, but the query runs fine in my IDE! What gives?

This article is part of the upcoming Troubleshooting JavaScript chapter that should soon make it into…
Life hack: encode a URL in a QR code using APEX

Someone in the community once said to me that APEX is awesome even if you’re not…
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…
JavaScript Handler Functions in ORDS: Pay Attention to Data Types

In the past few weeks, I have written several articles covering JavaScript handlers in Oracle REST…
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…
Inline JavaScript and some further details about code delimiters

I recently attended POUG 2025, perhaps the most technical conference in Europe with focus on Oracle…
Identify driver details of your cloud VM’s block devices

While preparing a presentation for POUG 2025 I had a need to find out more about…
Why does my call to json_table return null for a column despite it not being empty?

I recently worked on a fun project involving JSON and Oracle Database 23ai. I had to…
Group-by-all is awesome for digging in performance data

Oracle Database 23ai Release Update 9 introduces yet another new feature aimed at improving the developer…
What’s new with MLE 23.9 – no need to grant execute on javascript

Oracle Database 23ai introduces In-Database JavaScript for Linux x86-64 and aarch64. That’s Linux on Intel and…