(Shay Shmeltzer) A new feature in Oracle ADF 12.2.1 is Remote TaskFlows (or Remote Regions) – this allows one application to have regions inside it that are populated from taskflows that are running as part of another application.

(Andrew Reid) If you use Oracle Standard Edition to create a production database, you need to be sure to create any corresponding test databases in Oracle Standard Edition too. Otherwise you may find that some SQL might be tested successfully, only to fail when you implement it in production.

(Morten Braten) When you install Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) as the gateway for your Oracle Application Express (APEX) applications, you run the java -jar ords.war command to configure ORDS, including specifying connection strings and passwords for the service accounts apex_public_user, apex_li

(advait) This is a brief article about workload management in RAC. I tried to cover different components of workload management in RAC and how they are configured at client side or server side. I haven’t gone into details of configuration steps but just mentioned in brief about how it can be done.

(Jeff Smith) The Connection Tree and Schema Browser make pretty nifty object navigators. But maybe you want your own custom list of objects.

(Jeffrey Kemp) You have a Select List item on your page driven from a dynamic query, e.g. one that only shows valid values. One day, users notice that the list appears empty and raise a defect note.

(Vikram Das) We have used OEL 6.6 image in our latest build. When we cloned an EBS R12.2 instance that was on OEL 5.7 to this new server that has OEL 6.6, During the clone, adcfgclone.pl was failing.

(Luca Canali) This post is about investigating Oracle wait events using stack profiles and flame graphs extended with OS-process state and Oracle wait event details.

(Dominic Brooks) Plan degradations on upgrade are normal.

(Patrick Sinke) Not all regions in APEX can be refreshed using the PPR mechanism. Especially PL/SQL regions are difficult to refresh with AJAX.