Spatial Data in Oracle AI Database Spatial data describes the shape, location, and relationships of objects or points - whether virtual or in the real world. It powers everything from mapping and logistics to proximity search and location-aware applications. In Oracle AI Database, spatial is a…

AI Optimizer & Toolkit: test and generate apps In this article, we'll explore automated testing with the Oracle AI Optimizer & Toolkit, and then generate Python LangChain or Java Spring AI applications from our tested AI configurations. What is the Oracle AI Optimizer & Toolkit? It’s a free and…

Unlocking Session Visibility with Oracle Client Info Monitoring database interactions is critical for performance tuning, debugging, and security. With Oracle AI Database, you can attach client metadata to connections; such as client identifiers, module and action names. Client metadata can be…

AI Optimizer & Toolkit: connect LLMs and use your data In this article, we’ll configure the Oracle AI Optimizer and Toolkit with an LLM, enable embedding and chat APIs, and integrate user context through vectorized data for RAG-powered responses. We'll embed and store user data in Oracle AI…

AI Optimizer & Toolkit: set up a local sandbox The Oracle AI Optimizer and Toolkit is a free and open-source tool designed to make it easier for developers and data engineers to build, benchmark, and optimize AI workflows running on Oracle Database. It provides a modular framework for…

How to write a custom tracer for Oracle Database JDBC In this article, we'll implement a custom JDBC tracer for Oracle Database based on the OJDBC OpenTelemetry provider. Our custom implementation integrates with Spring Boot and adds span attributes like database client info and the system user.…

Oracle JDBC Tracing with Spring Boot OpenTelemetry Oracle's JDBC Driver can export traces to an OpenTelemetry backend - let's walk through how to configure this with Spring Boot and Micrometer! Just looking for the code? Click Here. With OpenTelemetry tracing, you gain visibility into JDBC calls…

Tracing a Spring Boot JMS app with Oracle Database Free In this article, we'll use OpenTelemetry tracing to instrument a Spring JMS application with Oracle Database Free. Tracing allows developers to follow a request as it flows through distributed systems — in this case, from the producer to the…

Monitor your Oracle Database(s) with OpenTelemetry In this article, we'll explore how Oracle Database fits into the modern, open-source, and cloud-native observability stack. What is OpenTelemetry? OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides a standardized way to collect…

Testing Go apps with Oracle Database using Testcontainers In this article, we'll walk through how to configure an Oracle Database Free container for go application tests using testcontainers-go. What is Testcontainers? Testcontainers for Oracle Database (go) Write a test for OracleContainer Run…

Migrate an Apache Kafka app to Oracle Database in 5 minutes. youtu.be/LS12tcBNIdM?...

Consumers and message retention in database-driven event streaming In this article, we’ll walk through the differences between push vs. pull messaging, queues and topics, and describe consumer groups in the context of Oracle Database Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ). By the end of this…

Pub/Sub with a NodeJS Oracle Database App Did you know you can easily add pub/sub capabilities to your NodeJS/TypeScript app using Oracle Database? In this article, we'll implement a simple pub/sub TypeScript example using Oracle Database Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ). If you're not…

Pub/Sub in your DB? Oracle Database TxEventQ Pub/Sub in the Database? Yes — Here’s Why. In this article, we’ll discuss how to use your database for event streaming with Oracle Database Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ), a built-in, database-native message broker. TxEventQ supports multiple…

Test your TypeScript/NodeJS apps with Oracle Database Free Testcontainers is a popular framework that lets you test applications against real, disposable containers. It helps ensure your tests run against realistic environments without requiring complex infrastructure setup. In this article, we'll…

Spring Boot + Oracle Database In this article, we'll explore several Oracle Database integrations with Spring Boot from the Spring Cloud Oracle project. UCP DataSource over Hikari Oracle Wallet JMS Spring Cloud Stream Binder kafka-clients APIs JSON Collections Testcontainers with Oracle Database…

Transactional Outbox: Simplified with Oracle Database Event streaming is extremely popular in modern application architectures, providing high-throughput, real-time data flow in microservices architectures. However, ensuring data consistency in distributed systems is challenging — Traditional…

Learn Testcontainers (Java) with Oracle Database Free Testcontainers is a popular testing library that enables developers to write tests against disposable, containerized instances of databases, message brokers, and other essential services — anything that can fit in a container. For database…

Test Python Applications with Oracle Database Free using Testcontainers Testcontainers is a wildly popular library that provides developers with on-demand, disposable containers. When you build apps that use databases like Oracle, testing against a real instance instead of mocks or in-memory…

Multiple Views, One Schema: Simple RBAC with Duality Views In this article, we'll explore how JSON Relational Duality Views can be used to decompose a schema into subdomains - allowing role-based isolation of data to relevant services. If you'd like to follow along with this article, I recommend…

10 Modern Database Features To Start Using Today Relational databases have evolved. Modern multi-model databases go beyond tables, rows, and columns to become full-featured data platforms for application development. In this article, we'll explore 10 modern Oracle Database features that help build…

Virtual, Materialized, and @generated columns In this article, we'll explore virtual and materialized columns and @generated fields in JSON Relational Duality Views. Why use computed columns at all? Indexing Query simplification Human error Types of computed columns Virtual Columns Materialized…

Using a modern database? You might not need that ORM anymore Object Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks translate programming objects to SQL statements. ORM implementations are found in most programming languages, and frameworks like Hibernate and Prisma are extremely popular among developers for…

Lock-Free Writes at Scale: Under the Hood of Duality Views In this article, we'll explore Lock-Free Concurrency, a form of optimistic concurrency control. We'll see how lock-free concurrency control synchronizes document writes with JSON Relational Duality Views, allowing multiple concurrent…

GraphQL syntax for JSON Relational Duality Views Working with JSON Relational Duality Views, you can use the SQL or GraphQL DDL syntax. I like the GraphQL format for its simple, expressive syntax: in this article, we'll explore using GraphQL to define for JSON Relational Duality Views through…

How to run x86 containers on ARM (like Oracle Database adb-free) Sometimes you have an ARM chip, but the container image you want to use is only runs on x86 processors. I have a MacBook Pro (M-series, ARM architecture), but I also like running the Oracle Database adb-free container image. This is…

Let’s talk about Model Context Protocol (MCP) First, let's talk about LLVM, the modular and reusable compiler toolchain: With LLVM as a compiler backend, we write code in the language of our choice, and compile it to any number of supported backend architectures. “develop a frontend for any…

Many-to-many data modelling with JSON Relational Duality Views Oracle Database JSON Relational Duality Views are a powerful tool that combines the functionality of document databases and relational schemas. With duality views, you model data in normalized tables, and access it as clean, composable…

Simple RESTful services with ORDS: Duality Views In this article, we'll create a RESTful webservice that can GET/POST/PUT/DELETE relational JSON documents. The best part? We'll use just a few lines of PL/SQL and zero lines of backend code to implement our REST API with Oracle REST Data Services…

Simple RESTful services with ORDS Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) is free-to-use Java EE server that extends that capabilities of Oracle Database with RESTful services. With ORDS, you get out-of-the-box functionality for your database instance: Database management REST APIs SQL Developer (web)…

One Database. Any Data. Any Workload. Oracle Database handles relational, JSON, vectors, and more—from a single, converged database engine. Try it out yourself, with Oracle Database Free: - container database: lnkd.in/dUtrjpXN - with Testcontainers: lnkd.in/gCGzufrd - Demo App: lnkd.in/g5digBVS

Curious about AI Vector search but not sure where to begin? Let’s break it down! Check out my intro article on Vector Databases 🎓 📖 Learn the Basics: 👉 Intro to Vector Databases: lnkd.in/gYMqShaS

Short video highlighting Kafka Connectors and Spring Integration with Oracle Database Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ) If you're not familiar, TxEventQ enables queuing and event streaming with topics in Oracle Database. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7A-...

Oracle Database Feature Highlight: Kafka Connectors, Spring Cloud Stream Binder, and Spring JMS with Transactional Event Queues medium.com/@anders.swan...

Modern IT gives developers the freedom to choose their tech. Whether it's SQL, NoSQL, or a document API, modern databases offer flexibility. For instance, JavaScript developers can easily use a document API in Oracle Database 23ai. Check out this guide for more: martincarstenbach.com/2025/02/07/l...

Andy Tael demonstrates how to produce and consume messages with Spring JMS and Oracle Database Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ) 🚀 TxEventQ integrates with the idiomatic Spring JMS APIan, enabling developers to use Oracle Database as a messaging system. medium.com/@andytael/sp...

Join me next Wednesday (12 Feb) to learn about using PL/SQL to build #database APIs We'll cover Oracle Database 23ai enhancements to help you do this such as: Better loops Extended case expressions JSON integration The automatic SQL transpiler Starts 10am UK time go.oracle.com/LP=146704?el...

🎓 Want to get started with Event Streaming and hashtag#Oracle hashtag#Database using Transactional Event Queues (hashtag#TxEventQ)? Check out my list on TxEventQ, ranging in content from TxEventQ's basic concepts to practical implementations in PL/SQL and Java: medium.com/@anders.swan...

Oracle Database's Flashback Time Travel empowers users to automatically archive, explore and recover historical data. Can Tuzla demonstrates Flashback Time Travel: blogs.oracle.com/datawarehous...

You might have used SQL Developer, but have you tried the SQL Developer extension for VS Code? @thatjeffsmith.com shows how to install and get started: www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2024... I personally use the JSON Relational Duality View builder (among other features) regularly!

Today's Oracle Database share is from Anders Swanson, and he's going to show you how to use our Autonomous Container to run Oracle Database, ORDS, and APEX all out of a single docker. medium.com/@anders.swan... Anders has a nice series post delving into Java/Spring as well!

#Oracle #Database #Spring Boot Starters 25.0.0 is now available on Maven: mvnrepository.com/artifact/com... To help developers get started with Oracle Database and Spring Boot, I've collected my Spring Boot blog posts into one place: medium.com/@anders.swan...