(David Fitzjarrell) New database versions are always interesting; default parameter values can change; new parameters can be introduced, and new settings can appear.

(Luc Bors) Recently I have been working on a customer chatbot project. Although it was not a direct requirement, I decided to look into embedding the chatbot in a web application too.

(Maarten Smeets) Docker provides different networking options. When using the Docker host networking, you don’t have the option to create port mappings.

(Simon Greener) Today I checked the processing of the CENTROID_A method within the free CENTROID package that many download from my website.

(Uwe Hesse) One Exasol key feature is the low maintenance effort it has compared to many other database systems. Automatic Table Reorganization is an example for this approach:

(Dimitri Gielis) Sometimes the Oracle APEX documentation announces some packages will become deprecated in a release. It’s not that those packages are suddenly gone, but you should not use them anymore.

(Hemant K Chitale) Oracle 12c has introduced a new feature called “Partial Index” whereby selective partitions of a Table are indexed.

(Martijn Pronk) A couple of moths ago, Enterprise Modules announced the easy to start way of making use their Oracle modules, ora_profile. Recently their modules have been updated to support the on-premise release of Oracle 18c (18.3).

(Anand) Suppose you have a dataset (data) and want to find every 5th item. How would you do it?

(Skant Gupta) A vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the “works on my machine” excuse a relic of t