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Oracle User-Defined Functions

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Oracle User-Defined Functions

Last week, I presented to the Quest Oracle Community SIG on using Oracle User-Defined Functions and Oracle OCI Functions and how they could be instrumental in battling technology debt.

OCI Function Deployment Error

OCI Function Deployment Error

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers serverless functions. For OCI, function development requires tools to create and deploy code in accordance. This set of independent tools often results in mysterious errors.

Resolving OCI Management Agent installation error

Problem Getting "Error: Transaction failed" when installing the Oracle Management Agent which is downloaded from the OCI console. These are the steps I performed: 1. Navigate to "Observability & Management", then click on "Management Agent" 2. Click on "Download and Keys" 3.

OCI: Secure Load Balancer

OCI: Secure Load Balancer

It started as a routine wildcard certificate renewal and updating on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It usually takes about 20 minutes, but not today when the certbot offered me a private key update.

Keycloak: Use Oracle Autonomous database

Keycloak: Use Oracle Autonomous database

The Keycloack Server documentation recommends an external database to persist realms configuration. The article describes how to configure Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing service with WildFly/JBoss application server.

Is Oracle Cloud really that cheap?

Is Oracle Cloud really that cheap?

In January 2019, I conducted performance tests of various compute cloud providers, specifically against services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. Comparing Compute Cloud Performance Results A summary of our January 2019 results can be found in this

Can't find the "oci" executable in Oracle Cloud?

Can't find the "oci" executable in Oracle Cloud?

A few months ago, I attended an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workshop in Oracle Reston. In one of the hands-on labs, it appears that the oci executable was not found in my compute instance: To remedy this, simply run this command: bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/