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23-Oct-2017 10:21:11

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..

19-Oct-2017 12:42:42

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…

16-Oct-2017 09:39:22

Oracle Data Visualization Update

Throughout 2016, I posted a series of blogs introducing Oracle’s recent additions to its Data Visualization portfolio – Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS) and Data..

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11-Oct-2017 11:24:07

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..

11-Oct-2017 08:55:16

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..

09-Oct-2017 13:37:40

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..

09-Oct-2017 10:00:47

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..

26-Sep-2017 12:30:50

Generating PDF and Word Documents from an APEX application

Generating PDF and Word documents from an APEX application is a request that we get all the time. There are many great third party tools to help you do this but in this blog post..

19-Sep-2017 10:56:55

QuickSQL – Saves you time

One of the new features of APEX 5.1 definitely changed my way of creating DDL on Oracle databases. With the Quick SQL packaged application you only need to write minimal lines of..