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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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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..

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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..

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Journey to Oracle Cloud: Reduce Costs, Modernise Your Data & Drive Business Innovation...

This event is focused on three key areas to ensure Oracle Cloud success:

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The importance of a scalable database

The importance of a scalable database When a DBA refers to scalability, they’re referring to the flexibility your database has to expand. This can be done in one of two ways:..

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A quick introduction to Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is an Engineered System designed to simplify the installation, deployment and support of Oracle and non-Oracle Application and Database..

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What to look for in a Modern DBA Support Provider

What to look for in a Modern DBA Support Provider In the not too distant past relational database infrastructures, whilst reasonably complex, were still straightforward to..

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