(Connor McDonald) In the world of DevOps, continuous integration and repeatable test cases, the demand for being able to

(Martin Berger) datapatch was introduced with Oracle 12.1 to simplify management of post-patching steps when a patch (or patchset) is applied.

(Bobby Curtis) Here is a little something for you. I’m working on building a demo of Oracle GoldenGate Microservices between three (3) containers. In order to do this, I wanted to setup a dedicated network between the containers.

(Martin Bach) Virtualbox VMs powered by Vagrant require authentication via SSH keys so you don’t have to provide a password each time vagrant up is doing its magic. Provisioning tools you run as part of the vagrant up command also rely on the SSH key based authentication to work properly.

(David Fitzjarrell) An interesting issue reared its head back in version 9.2 that involves inserting data into multiple tables with a single statement when a foreign key is declared. Regardless of the table order in the insert statement the following error can be thrown:

(stewashton) Sometimes we think that certain restrictions are not documented when in fact they are. Where do we forget to look? Database Error Messages

(Bobby Curtis) One of the most important and time consuming things to do with Oracle GoldenGate is to build parameter files for the GoldenGate processes.

(Jeffrey Kemp) There is a great deal you can build in APEX without even thinking about using a plugin. The development platform has an excellent range of built-in functionality and components so that almost all user requirements can be covered using standard APEX features.

(Frits Hoogland) This blogpost is about an inconsistency I found in the X$ tables X$KQFTA and X$KQFCO. This is very specific. If you don’t care about that, you can skip this post.

(Bobby Durrett) I have mentioned in previous posts that I am working on migrating a large 11.2 database on HP Unix to 19c on Linux.