(Lucas Jellema) In a recent post, I introduced the managed Oracle Cloud Service for Kubernetes, the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE):

(stewashton) My previous post got several replies about other ways to compare columns across rows. Here’s my take on all of them.

(David Fitzjarrell) Oracle provides an interesting function, ASCIISTR(), to return ASCII strings from a VARCHAR2 or CLOB column, and in general it does an admirable job.

(Frits Hoogland) In a blogpost introducing the vagrant builder suite I explained what the suite could do, and the principal use, to automate the installation of the Oracle database software and the creation of a database on a virtual machine using vagrant together with ansible and virtual box.

(Jagruti Jasleniya) We have seen how block change tracking is enabled.

(Lucas Jellema) Put simply – CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is an architecture pattern that recognizes the fact that it may be wise to separate the database that processes data manipulations from the engines that handle queries.

(Uwe Hesse) The building blocks of an Exasol cluster are commodity Intel servers like e.g. Dell PowerEdge R740 with 96 GB RAM,12 x 1.2 TB SAS Hot-plug hard-drives and 2 x 10Gb Ethernet Cards for the private network.

(David Fitzjarrell) Doing things just because “they’ve always been done that way” may not be the best reason to stick with old and accepted processes and utilities. Oracle has changed significantly over the years and those improvements shouldn’t be ignored simply because “that’s always worked before

(Oren Nakdimon) This is part 7 of a post series about EBR.

(Jagruti Jasleniya) Cascading Standby Database works in two layers.