By the time this posts hits, I’ll be in the air heading to one of my favorite cities, San Francisco. — My Sifu, Coach Sule, has that slogan as part of his email signature, and those are words are quite fitting. If you have been following me on Twitter, then you know that a lot …
Case Insensitivity with JSON and Oracle 12c?
About a week ago, I was presenting at ECO on JSON parsing in the Oracle 12c Database and an attendee asked a great question. To summarize, Maria Colgan gave a keynote in which she noted a feature in 12c that allows you to define a column as Case Insensitive. The attendee in my session asked if …
ODC Appreciation Day : SQL Developer
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there have been a few changes in Oracle’s advocacy community. The Oracle Technology Network has been rebranded as The Oracle Developer Community (ODC), and the Oracle ACE and Java Champions have a new baby sibling, called the Developer Champion. In the 2nd, hopefully annual Appreciation Day (started by Tim Hall), the community …
Microservices PoC: Docker Calculator build with docker-compose
Hopefully you have been following my Docker exploits allowing me to share as I go along. Recently I posted a part two on my Microservices PoC describing a simple calculator. The solution currently instructs to you to execute four (4) docker build commands to create the individual containers for the calculator function. When I did …
Run SQLd360 in Docker Container
A few weeks ago, I needed to run SQLd360, but didn’t have access to the database server, and I was working from a Windows box. That combination is not the best. Normally, I would have used VirtualBox with a Linux OS and handled things from there. This time I decided to see what could be …
Microservices PoC: A Docker Calculator Pt.2
In my previous Microservices PoC post, I attempted to use a calculator to conceptualize microservices. The premise was to look at the calculator as a monolithic application and then break it down into discrete services. The focus was on the Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide functions and deploying them in separate docker containers thus creating …
Install SQL Developer on Ubuntu 17.04
Last week I decided to blow away Windows on my ASUS laptop and install a flavor of #Linux. I’ve got a few machines running Oracle Linux so I settled on #Ubuntu. To be more specific: dbryant@asus:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 17.04 Release: 17.04 Codename: zesty As a …
Microservices PoC: A Docker Calculator
This example will explore building a simple container that has one specific function. I’ll then extend this concept to a bit to add additional containers in an effort to build a basic calculator that can add, subtract, divide, and multiply. The current rendition will execute from the command line. Given enough time, we can REST …
MongoDB Docker Oracle Linux Slim
Working for a consulting firm, I have the opportunity to occasionally explore technologies that don’t quite align with my focus area(s). I started looking at MongoDB, and over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found it to be quite fun. This post will focus on my intro to MongoDB and hopefully will result in a …
Deploy node-oracledb with Official Instant Client Image
A few days ago, I started building a PoC with the Oracle DB 12.1 and Oracle Instant Client. My goal was to deploy each component to separate and see if I could access the DB from the OIC container. Now to take it a step further. Adding the node-oracledb driver to enable Node.js interaction with …
