(Fahd Mirza) For DBAs of Cloud, its imperative to learn various networking concepts and CIDR is one of them. Without going into much detail, I will just post here quick note as what CIDR is and how to use it.

(Dimitri Gielis) Over a year ago I developed the game to practice the multiplications. I quickly created an Oracle APEX page, added a bunch of JavaScript and that was about it. The last weeks you could read I’ve redeveloped the entire app from the ground up but I still have to add the game to it.

(Sayan Malakshinov) Unfortunately associative arrays still require more “coding”:

(Stefan) The Adaptive Features is divided in two parts

(Dirk Nachbar) Within the latest release of Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.3.0 is a really cool new feature – Oracle Forms Application Deployment Services (FADS).

(Joel Peréz and Skant Gupta) By backing up your Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployments, you can protect the software, configuration and database against loss if a failure occurs. By restoring from a backup, you can restore the deployment’s software, configuration, and database to their s

(Zahid Anwar) Oracle customers who are fortunate to have an Oracle Exadata Database Machine, will need to run “exachk” from time to time, which is pronounced as Exa-Check. This tool checks your Oracle Exadata Database Machine configuration, software, critical issue and provides a Maximum Availabili

(connormcdonald) We all know what upgrades mean. Installation…Configuration…Patching…Testing…Deployment…Change approvals…Meetings…Long hours…Perhaps pulling an “overnighter” but hopefully never having to enact the dreaded “Backout Plan”.

(Martin Berger) This blog post continues with all the objects and settings from SecureFile LOB – the empty table, SecureFile LOB – the 1st insert and SecureFile LOB – the 1st update.

(stewashton) Continuing my series on using ORA_ROWSCN to achieve optimistic locking, let’s zoom in on the query API and the “read-consistent” SCN of the data it returns. I’ve been asking myself these questions: