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

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
ORDS

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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General

My wife and I are celebrating 20 years married (to each other!!!) , and I will not be here answering questions or posting new content for the next two weeks. However, there is a LOT scheduled to happen in the database tools world while I’m out. So be sure to follow @krisrice for news and updates. Oh, and if you like to torture yourself by watching others having fun, you can find me pretty easily…

SQL Developer

I have a PL/SQL block of code – I wonder where most of the time is being spent to execute it? Well guess what? The PL/SQL team has given us an interface to answer this exact question. The PL/SQL Hierarchical Profiler does 3 things of note: Reports the dynamic execution profile of your PL/SQL program, organized by subprogram callsAccounts for SQL and PL/SQL execution times separatelyMakes me feel like an idiot whenever I try to…

ORDS

When building your RESTful (Web) Services in ORDS, you assign a ‘Source Type’ for your handlers. The selection you make here has a big impact on how ORDS formats the response. In general, you give us some SQL or PL/SQL. We execute it, get the response, and turn it into {JSON}. It’s a bit more complicated than that though, so I wanted to walk through ALL of the different Source Types. Collection Query We expect…