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Start up an Oracle Database in Kubernetes with Oracle REST Data Services and Database Actions in no time at all!

Hi everyone! Today I want to show you how easy it is to get an instance of Oracle up and running in Kubernetes, with Oracle REST Data Services and Database Actions using the Oracle Database Operator for Kubernetes Let’s assume … Continue reading

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New 23c version of Kafka-compatible Java APIs for Transactional Event Queues published

We just published the new 23c version of the Kafka-compatible Java APIs for Transactional Event Queues in Maven Central, and I wanted to show you how to use them! If you are not familiar with these APIs – they basically … Continue reading

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Big news today – Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release just released!

Hi everyone! Big news today, just announced at Oracle CloudWorld in Singapore! The new Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is now available. Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is the first release of the next-generation Oracle Database, … Continue reading

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Getting started with the new observability exporter for Oracle database

My colleague Paul Parkinson recently published our new unified obserability exporter for Oracle Database on GitHub, you can read about it here. I wanted to start playing around with it to see what we can do with it. In this … Continue reading

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Getting to know Docker – a better way to do virtualization?

In this post, with guest co-writers Edwin Biemond (@biemond) and Joel Nation (@joelith), we will explore virtualization with Docker.  You may have heard of Docker, it is getting a lot of interest lately, especially with the recent announcement that Google … Continue reading

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SOA/BPM 11g purging whitepaper

The long awaited whitepaper on purging SOA/BPM 11g databases by Michael Bousamra with Deepak Arora and Sai Sudarsan Pogaru has been released and is available here. I recommend you take a look!  

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Getting started with tuning your SOA/BPM database using AWR

Update:  When I initially published this post, I was relying on information from a single source inside Oracle, however since publishing it, I have been discussing the content further with other sources in the Oracle community, and in the course … Continue reading

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Purging old instance data from SOA/BPEL 10g

My colleague Deepak Arora (see his blog here) has written an excellent white paper on purging old instance data from SOA Suite/BPEL 10g and also a great blog post on automating the deletion of old partitions.  If you are interested in … Continue reading

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Purging old instance data from SOA/BPM 11g

When you are running a lot of instances of your composites through SOA/BPM 11g in your testing/development environment, you will start to fill up the available space in your database with the logging and auditing information for these instances.  From … Continue reading

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Recovering an Oracle database after doing something bad to your SPFILE

Well it has been over a year since the last time I broke my database, but I did it again today!  This time I increased the sga size without also increasing some other parameter, and the database would not start, … Continue reading

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