(connormcdonald) If you’ve read my previous post about getting started with the Oracle database, then hopefully you now have your very own database installed and running, and you have a explored a little with the sample schemas using SQL Developer.

(Tobias Arnhold) One of my customers needed an IR where half of the report columns should be visualized in another color.

(Maarten Smeets) In order to quickly develop microservices, Spring Boot is a common choice. Why should I be interested in Spring Boot? In this blog post I’ll give you some reasons why looking at Spring Boot is interesting and give some samples on how to get started quickly.

(connormcdonald) This question came to me over Twitter, so I thought I’d whip out a quick post on it

(Zahid Anwar) Please check the following blog post “How to check if Exadata Write-Back Flash Cache is Enabled” for:

(Brendan Tierney) The 18c Oracle DBaaS is now available. This is the only place that Oracle 18c will be available until later in 2018. So if you want to try it out, then you are going to need to get some Oracle Cloud credits, or you may already have a paying account for Oracle Cloud.

(Skant Gupta) In the last article, we performed downgrade of Oracle Standalone Database from 12c to 11gR2. In this article, we can downgrade the 2 node RAC 12.1.0.2 database to 11.2.0.4, downgraded the database only and not the grid home.

(connormcdonald) An AskTOM reader brought this to our attention. It is unlikely to cause you any issues, but perhaps is good to know when it comes times to upgrade from 11g to 12c.

(Andrejus Baranovskis) Visual conversation flow is a first thing to create, when you want to build chatbot. Such flow will help to define proper set of intents along with dialog path. Otherwise it is very easy to get lost in conversation transitions and this will lead to chatbot implementation failu

(fteter) One of the best things about working on the HCM Cloud Center of Excellence team at Oracle is that you learn something new every day.