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"Self Managing Databases: Fable, Fantasy or the Future"

Lunch and roundtable discussion DSP-Explorer will be hosting Oracle users, professionals and employees at a business lunch at Darbaar Restaurant to discuss the impact of AI in the..

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ORDS, OAuth2 & Web Services in APEX – Part 2

In my previous blog, I took you through how to create RESTful Web Services with ORDS and how to test them with a REST client. This blog will build on those Web Services (Fig.1)..

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Why invest in Exadata

Generic infrastructure gives you generic results.

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ORDS,OAuth2 & Web Services in APEX – Part 1

I recently gave a presentation on how to get started with Web Services at the UKOUG APEX SIG in London. The first half covered how to create Web Services with ORDS, how to protect..

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DSP winners at the UK Oracle User Group Awards 2017/18

DSP - Winners at the UKOUG Awards 2017/18 All of us at DSP are very proud to announce that we have won two awards at the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) Partner of the Year Awards..

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Oracle skip unlucky 13 with new Database version structure

Following the announcements at OpenWorld last week here are my thoughts on the changes to the new software version numbering structure…

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Optimising your Oracle Infrastructure

Optimising your Oracle Infrastructure “Optimisation simply means that you take a bunch of little things that don’t seem to be very difficult to change and all of those little..

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Using Oracle Cloud for Database Upgrade

The Oracle Cloud provides a comprehensive set of services that can be used for fast and efficient data migration & testing between different Database versions. The notes below are..

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ODA X7 – more than just a hardware refresh

Following a week out in San Francisco with Oracle a number of announcements have come out relating to Cloud Infrastructure and Engineered Systems that are very relevant for our..

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Validations and Duplicate Page Submissions in APEX 5.1

I had a problem with a modal dialog page in APEX 5.1, which created new rows in a table on the database whenever the Create button was pressed. The problem was that if the user..

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