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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SQL Developer

LIQUIBASE does ‘Source Control for your Database.’ It’s an Open Source project that allows you to capture changelogs for your database, including Oracle. What we are doing: Extending the support for Oracle to include all schema object types Building an interface directly into SQLcl via a new LB (LIQUIBASE) command Generating the changelogs for you and managing rollbacks plus the ordering for the changelogs to avoid database object dependency errors. A Quick Demo I said…

SQL Developer

You have some data in an Oracle Database in your data center or laptop or docker or VirtualBox or…you get the idea. And, you have an Autonomous Data Warehouse or Transaction Processing (ADW & ATP) Database running in the Oracle Cloud. How do we get your data from your ‘old’ database up to your Cloud? If you have SQL Developer and access to Data Pump, then you can our wizards to make this a bit…

ORDS

Today’s question: Does ORDS support PUT/POST with Array or Cursor as part of the payload? I need to call a procedure with 1 IN parameter defined as Array or Cursor (for a list of IDs). The answer is Yes, and I’ll show with the AUTO Feature. The Underlying Code: 161704218867299520ac0f3_000001 Executing FORUMS_PLSQL_TABLE.INS_C() via POST First, let’s Auto PL/SQL Enable the Package. 161704218867299520ac0f3_000002 Second, let’s call the package. 161704218867299520ac0f3_000003 So in my POST I passed a…

SQL Developer

Slideshare won’t let you update slide decks anymore, so I just uploaded my latest version as a new offering. All of the Performance Tuning Features in Oracle SQL Developer, 2018 Edition from Jeff Smith I’ll be presenting this topic at UKOUG this week. if you’d like me to present this to your group of the developers and administrators, drop me a note, and we’ll setup a webinar. A Custom Design Rule – Do I Have…

SQL Developer

Here’s an 8 minute video walk through of using INFO and DESC in Oracle SQLcl. You can decide what works better for you – hey, maybe you’ll decide to use both! INFO shows more info INFO+ shows more info with more stats You can INFO a package OR a package.procedure Enjoy! PS – I made this on my new rig Mac Mini, 4k screen, but I filmed for 1080p resolution. I’m also using a new…

Database Stuff

The 2018 conference season is winding down. Next week is DOAG in Germany – an amazing conference by the way – and a short time after that is the UKOUG Tech 2018 conference in Liverpool, England. This will be my second experience presenting at UKOUG, and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and meeting new folks – all while talking about ORDS and SQL Developer. The Tuning in SQL Developer talk is a…