It’s hardly news, as Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) 18.4 has been out for a while, but I thought I would mention a couple of things related to it.
First off, we’ve upgraded (almost) all of our ORDS installations to 18.4 at work. I say almost because we’ve got a couple of 11.2 databases that don’t work consistently with anything newer that ORDS 3.0.12, so they aren’t being touched until (more...)
Hi! I’m currently at Oracle Open World 2018 in San Francisco and I’ve so I thought I would provide a copy of my slide deck for the presentations this morning.
If you are interested in how to provide good Neural Networks Machine Learning to developers in a simple to ingest REST interface, this is the place for you!
All of the URL’s are live, running in the Oracle Cloud, at the time of writing; including (more...)
On a recent installation we had problems serving APEX static files (application and workspace), they would always report a 404 not found back from ORDS.
Of course I checked all required DB users and the ORDS config files, but couldn’t find anything obvious. Also no REST service defined in APEX would work.
By looking into the tomcat logfile I found a strange error:
WARNING: ORA-04063: view "ORDS_METADATA.UNIFIED_POOL_CONFIG" has errors
with a whole Java Exception (more...)
With Oracle GoldenGate 12c (12.3.0.1.x), you can now quickly load empty target tables with data from your source database. You could always do this in previous releases of Oracle GoldenGate, but the process has now been simplified using REST APIs and some scripting know-how. In this post, I’m going to show you, high level, how you can use the REST APIs and a bit of scripting to do an initial load (more...)
Slack is a web-based chat room popular with many companies. Slack also has an API that can be used to post messages to a given "channel" or chat room. The simplest API offered is the
"webhook" integration, which is "a simple way to post messages from external sources into Slack. They make use of normal HTTP requests with a JSON payload that includes the message text and some options."
To create a new Slack
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