(Andrejus Baranovskis) What if you want to access mobile device location data from JET Hybrid application? This can be achieved with Cordova Geolocation plugin. But you want it to be nicely done and want to make sure application is granted with permission to access location information.

(Job Oprel) One of the great advantages of the Oracle database Appliance HA is the possibility of Virtualization through OracleVM. This virtualization wasn’t possible for the other members of the Oracle Database Appliance. Until now.

(Carlos Sierra) Using the default Maintenance Window for automatic tasks such as statistics gathering and space advisor is just fine… except when the number of PDBs is large (in our case over 100 PDBs in one DB). And starting resource-intensive tasks regulated by the Maintenance Window cause CPU to

(connormcdonald) In the Security Guide there is a section to assist you with the decisions about what rules you might want to have in place when users choose passwords, namely attributes like the minimum length of a password, the types of characters it must (and must not) contain, re-use of old pass

(Zahid Anwar) As a DBA, in your time, you will need to download files such as Oracle binaries, patches, etc. As a rule of thumb, you should always checksum you downloads, to ensure they are free of corruption.

(Roel Hartman) For pushing changes from the database to the end user, the regular solution is using websockets. A change in a record is detected – using a trigger or using the CQN (Change Query Notification) feature – and a notification is send to a websocket server.

(Emiel Paasschens) When you use JDeveloper and deploy a project from JDeveloper to a server, JDeveloper remembers this, so you can easily deploy to it again.

(Kim Berg Hansen) One of the new features in Oracle 12.2 is partitioning of external tables – a quite useful feature if you have multiple identical files of data, for example from multiple sources.

(Duncan Davies) It’s a common practice to change the background colour of your environments to give a visual clue which is which. This helps reduce confusion and lessens the risk of entering test data into Production.

(tonyhasler) Most of you will be familiar with the “Comma Separated Values” data format. It is used in spreadsheets and other places to store ordered lists of character data. The delimiter is typically a comma and if a comma is in a list item the item as a whole needs to be quoted, typically with do