
The challenge I describe in this article is quite specific. I have a Windows laptop. I have access to a remote Kubernetes cluster (on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). I want to create Fn functions and deploy them to an Fn server running on that Kubernetes (k8s from now on) environment and I want to be able to execute functions running on k8s from my laptop. That’s it.
In this article I will take you on a (more…)
This the the fifth blog in a series of blogposts about Oracle database redo. The previous blog looked into the ‘null write’ (kcrfw_do_null_write actually) function inside kcrfw_redo_write_driver, which does housekeeping like updating SCNs and posting processes if needed, this blog looks into what happens when the log writer is actually posted by a process or if public redo strand buffers have been written into. In part 3 of this blog series (the log writer working (more…)
A relatively common on the forums is regarding the escaping of special characters in reports, but it seems the developer isn’t always sure what is actually happening and how to how to search for it.
It seems I’ve had this on my “to blog” list since April 2015, but now that 5.1 has been released, it seems more people are coming out to leave 4.x can’t work out where the Standard Report (more…)

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I’ve been trying to get a blogpost in for a while now but have not had enough time to actually get that in.
This is my Summary of Oracle Openworld 2012 or #oow to some. Oracle Openworld is tremendous event . There is just a lot of activities , be it Knowledge Sharing , Peer to Peer interaction or just socializing in general.
I’ve been very Fortunate this year to present at 2 conferences IOUG Collaborate (more…)