(Martin Bach) When I learned that Oracle was providing Ubuntu images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I was a bit surprised at first. After all, Oracle provides a great Enterprise Linux distribution in the form of Oracle Linux.

(Connor McDonald) We had an AskTOM question recently about how to calculate the IRR, ie, the Internal Rate of Return.

(Michael McLaughlin) This article teaches you how to use subtypes or subclasses. You can define an object type with or without dependencies. Object types can have two types of dependencies.

(David Fitzjarrell) NULL values can be a performance issue as, absent an index of some sort, searching for them involves a full table scan. For small tables (less than 10,000 rows) this usually isn’t a time sink; however, in enterprise tables (with millions of rows) a full table scan can consume con

(Lucas Jellema) An important part of enabling optimal use of SaaS applications is integrating various functions in said applications. Events in one application need to have an effect in others.

(Michael McLaughlin) This article is for you when you know the basics about how you work Oracle’s object types. It teaches you how to write effective getters, setters, comparators, and static methods.

(Tobias Arnhold) Since APEX 18.1 you can define the stretch behavior per column.

(Martin Bach) For a few times now I have presented about “cloud deployments done the cloud way”, sharing lessons learned in the changing world I find myself in. It’s a lot of fun and so far I have been far too busy to blog about things I learned by trial and error.

(Martien van den Akker) At my current customer we use queues a lot. They’re JMS queues, but in stead of Weblogic JMS, they’re served by the Oracle database.

(Lucas Jellema) A valuable capability that organizations using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure have available is internet intelligence. This capability allows you to monitor the health and accessibility of your web site’s or web application’s host – from over 30 locations across the world.