Blockchain Tables in Oracle Database 21c

Oracle 21c introduces a new feature called Blockchain Tables, which allows users to store and query data stored on a blockchain network directly in the database. This feature makes it easy to integrate blockchain data into Oracle-based applications, and enables users to leverage the security and immutability of blockchain technology while still using familiar SQL commands to access and manipulate the data.

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Oracle – generate INSERT statements for dynamic input query 2019

If you are working as developer/DBA probably you are quite often asked to migrate some rows from one database to another – usually people reference to the rows as “metadata” rows. Rows that driving your business !

If you need to prepare such rows for migrations there are a lot of methods to do it

just copy the rows using database link from one database to another
export/import the rows using tools like expdp/impdp
prepare manually scripts with INSERT statements

I would like to focus on the last method. It’s very popular to keep metadata in some files as number of INSERTs for backup/migrations/versioning etc.

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Install Fedora 25

This article presents how to install Fedora 25 – Live Workstation version.

I assume you have already downloaded Fedora 25 64 bit Live Workstation(about 1,3 G) and you know how to use VirtualBox 64 bit(100M). Create virtual machine with default settings for Linux Fedora 64 bit. 2GB ram and 64G(includes extra space for Oracle installations) for disk is enough plus increase video memory to 128M. Rest of options you can keep default.

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