(Andrej Baranovskij) Building a ML model is a crucial task. Running ML model in production is not a less complex and important task.

(Bobby Durrett) I mentioned in my previous two posts that I had tried to figure out if it would be safe to turn on force logging on a production database that does a bunch of batch processing on the weekend: post1, post2.

(spa) Oracle released the new Autonomous Health Framework since one week. It is very interesting to go through the list of new and changed features.

(Connor McDonald) We had a question on AskTOM inquiring about how to handle the issue of only 8 storage indexes being possible on an Exadata engineered system.

(Flavio Casetta) As per Oracle 12.2 SQL Reference:

(Dimitri Gielis) When using external (WEB/REST) services, you often communicate in JSON. So it’s important to be able to generate JSON in the format that is expected by the external service.

(Marco Mischke) Recently I assisted in a project that is utilizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to provide application servers and Oracle databases. The customer is located in New Zealand, so they obviously wanted to work with dates and times in their local time zone.

(stewashton) Jonathan Lewis recently wrote about estimating the clustering factor of an index, taking into account the intended value of the TABLE_CACHED_BLOCKS parameter of DBMS_STATS.SET_TABLE_PREFS.

(Gerald) BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or Android device. BOINC downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background.

(Laurent Schneider) In ancient times, ldapsearch could query ActiveDirectory without issues. In this examples, I used openldap client 2.4.