(Martin Bach) Thinking about automation a lot, especially in the context of cloud computing, I have decided to create a small series of related posts that hopefully help someone deploying environments in a fully automated way.

(Andrejus Baranovskis) While teaching ADF trainings and talking to ADF developers, often I can see people think about ADF bindings as about some mistery and try to avoid using full potential of ADF Data Control.

(Ben) In this article, I explain what the GROUP_ID function does and show you some examples.

(Jeff Smith) Want to publish some RESTful services using SQL Developer and Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)?

(Dbaharrison) Snappy title eh?

(David Fitzjarrell) Oracle provides a a function named sys_guid() that generates unique identifiers that can be used for a number of purposes, one of which is as a generated primary key

(Marco Gralike) Maybe not so evident to make a second post about Oracle 12.2.0.1 about the JSON Index we already came to know in 12.1.0.2, but there has been some changes that make a nice bridge towards some real new functionality and the “JSON hook-in” towards JSON In-Memory Column Store support…

(Bobby Durrett) I ran into a situation last week where a developer complained that a query sometimes ran for 3 or more seconds but normally runs much less than 1 second.

(mdinh) I fail to understand anonymous PL/SQL block is used with dbms_scheduler.

(Uwe Hesse) With your database in archive log mode, a Data Pump Import may be severely slowed down by the writing of much redo into online logs and the the generation of many archive logs.