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No More Guesswork: The Oracle Advisor for Optimal Database Partitioning

Intelligent analysis and execution

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Better Together: Oracle Database Compression for Oracle Database Partitioning

The best compression for OLTP workloads and Data Warehousing

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Datacentre Exit (DExit): Making Enterprises Great Again!

Datacentre strategies, or at least the sentiment of strategies, can be likened to the rhetoric of Brexit. More and more, I am seeing organisations that have mandated a Cloud only..

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Developing Secure Web Applications with APEX and ApexSec

A very common question asked is ‘Is APEX Secure?’ and Joel Kallman from Oracle addressed this topic here, the post is a few years old now but it still applies today. There are two..

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PL/PDF – PDF Images

Continuing the blog series about PL/PDF, this blog is all about adding images to a PDF report. In this first step, we are going to create a page cover and add this image.

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Latest News from Oracle (October)

Rewind the clock to New Years Eve 2018 and if anyone had said to me that in 2019 Oracle would announce new and meaningful partnerships with Microsoft and VMware for Cloud..

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Can I Generate PDFs from APEX in the Always Free Oracle Cloud?

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Time is running out: Do you have a plan for your Oracle Reports?

In a previous blog, I mentioned how Oracle Reports is now deprecated as of Fusion Middleware 12c Release 2 (12.2.1.3). This means no more new releases of Oracle Reports will be..

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Oracle Forms 12.2 New Features

For those looking to upgrade to the latest Oracle Forms version, here is a brief look at some of the notable new features introduced in the latest versions, 12.2.1.3 and 12.2.1.4...

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How Do I Access My Free Oracle Cloud Database

If you have created a free database in the new Always Free Oracle Cloud Tier, you can use the provided web version of SQL Developer to gain access to your schemas for development.

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