(brendantierney) The saying ‘Big Brother is Watching’ has been around a long time and typically gets associated with government organisations. But over the past few years we have a few new Big Brothers appearing. These are in the form of Google and Facebook and a few others.

(Jeff Smith) REST APIs can be useful, and even fun to build.

(Jan Kettenis) When mapping data in the Oracle Integration Cloud (or OIC for short) you sometimes discover that elements you want to map from are not always available as a source on the left-hand side.

(Scott Wall) Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) is a robust and versatile chatbot platform that can be utilized for a variety of use cases. One such use case is to provide relief to a costly and overworked live agent support staff.

(mdinh) Running runcluvfy using -method sudo -user oracle failed and not sure why path for sudo is hard coded.

(Phil Wilkins) There are circumstances in which notifications from the Oracle API Platform CS could be seen as desirable.

(Bobby Curtis) Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle over the last few releases have been moving towards an integrated architecture. This means that there is more views and tables within the Oracle Database that support Oracle GoldenGate.

(Mike.Dietrich) Oh boy – I try to avoid blogging about errors on a specific platform. But as this topic was brought to my attention now 3x in 2 weeks, I think I’ll send it out. And I hope you won’t hit this ORA-1722 when upgrading to 19.4.0 or 19.5.0 on Windows.

(Frits Hoogland) This blogpost is about Oracle database and grid infrastructure software homes, which patches should be applied to which homes, and what it then looks like. This is fully documented by MyOracleSupport notes, but you will see that with version 18 and up this is unclear.

(Dimitri Gielis) This post is the last post of a series of blog posts on the Best and Cheapest Oracle APEX hosting: Free Oracle Cloud.