I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!
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I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!

Taking an Oracle Database class or course? Need to get up and going on Oracle Database really fast, and really easily? Here’s my advice!

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REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle
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REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle

REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs, everything you need. Bonus: we’ll build a REST API to GET the data, with support for CLOB/JSON, links, and exception handling!

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You’ll at some point need to use a DATE as a predicate to get an item or collection of items out of your Oracle Database REST APIs. Here’s our least favorite, yet most common example, HR.EMPLOYEES. Let’s build a RESTful Service that lets me pull ALL of the employees hired on a certain DAY. Step One: Define the Template Step Zero would be to define the module, but the real work comes into play for…

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In fairness, it’s really only 8 lines of code, but @krisrice is a fan of comments. Here’s the setup: I have a query I want to run, where I can dump out a BLOB column in my table to separate files. And I need to automate this.A customer, in not so many words, more or less Using the SCRIPT command in SQLcl SQLcl will let you run whatever SQL or PL/SQL you want. And it…