Oracle DB - CLOB file in English loaded with Chinese characters
I tried to follow AskTom blog - Load JSON data file into Oracle 12c. Unfortunately my was one of the rare cases that appear where the English file, loaded to CLOB in the Oracle database was loaded in...
View ArticleOracle Spatial - SQL based Geographic data - Intro
Oracle Spatial is a free component of various versions of Oracle database, including on-premises or cloud versions and of course the Autonomous Oracle Database. The Spatial option helps developers and...
View ArticleOracle Spatial - loading geographical data Points
Following the previous post - Oracle Spatial - SQL based Geographic data - Intro, few examples of loading data points of geographical data.I will show 2 examples:a simple case and using a function...
View ArticleOracle Spatial - loading geographic data Area
Following the previous post - Oracle Spatial - SQL based Geographic data - Intro, few examples of loading data points of geographical data.I will cover here:Manual creationUsing a string Loading...
View ArticleOracle Spatial - loading geographic data - Line
Following the previous post - Oracle Spatial - SQL based Geographic data - Intro, few examples of loading lines of geographical data. Line is usually used when we have routes. I will cover here:Manual...
View ArticleHackathon Posts - Oracle APEX - Low Code App Platform
Few posts planned for use in expected Hackathons.Oracle APEX (formerly known as Oracle Application Express) is a very popular Low Code App Platform by Oracle. It is used for developing and deploying...
View ArticleOracle Analytics and AI services usefull links
Oracle Cloud Analytics and AI services. Links to product page, Documentation page, API, CLI & Python SDK.Few extras for some products, when relevant.OCI ProductProduct...
View ArticleOracle (with or without APEX) - adding insert and update time and user to table
We had an APEX project where we wanted to add auto-generated key, and save both date/time and user that made the insert and last update.In Oracle, the basic idea is to use a trigger and (for the key)...
View ArticleOracle OCI Product Tours Page
Oracle has a new (?) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Product Tours page: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/product-tours/ At the moment the Analytics section seems to be very active:...
View ArticleAdding AI - Vision Service, Text Detection to APEX
There is a great site of labs by Oracle - LiveLabs. They are using OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). One of the labs, named "Build AI-Powered Image Search into your Oracle APEX App" is combining APEX...
View ArticleImplementing the post - Adding AI - Vision Service, Text Detection to APEX
Following my post Adding AI - Vision Service, Text Detection to APEX I tried to implement it on our own system. Had few problems... Here is the summary. The process didn't work so I turned of the "Run...
View ArticleOracle Analytic Server 2024 is Available
Oracle Analytic Server new release is available. The internal name is OAS 7.6 and the formal is OAS 2024. If you are OBIEE or OAS owner, allow me to recommend you one thing (accept the Sunscreen part);...
View ArticleOracle Function Exception - No_DATA_FOUND
I wanted to write a function that accepts 2 parameters. An Item_ID and Manufacturer and returns the support time.In most cases the first parameter (Item_ID) is sufficient. There are few cases we need...
View ArticleAdding AI - Vision Service, Object Detection to APEX
There is a great site of labs by Oracle - LiveLabs. They are using OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). One of the labs, named "Build AI-Powered Image Search into your Oracle APEX App" is combining APEX...
View ArticleOAS 2024 Recomended Patches
Oracle Analytics Server 2024 (OAS 2024), sometimes name OAS 7.6 is available. Oracle published Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisor For Oracle Analytics Server and Oracle Business Intelligence - Updated...
View ArticleOracle Spatial - Millions of Points in Thousands of Polygons
I wrote about Oracle Spatial in the past. (Intro, data loading Points, Lines, Polygons). Now I had a new challenge.We had a POC. Customer wanted to test performance of 7 million data points in 3200...
View ArticleOracle OAS 2024 (7.6) October 2024 patch and the missing OPATCH
Oracle has released the Oracle Analytics Server - OAS 2024 (7.6) October 2024 bundle patch, specifically 09-Oct-2024 patch. You can find it at the regular place: Doc ID 2832967.2 in the OAS tab.The...
View ArticleInstalling OAS on mobile laptop
Once in a while I install OAS (Oracle Analytics Server) on my laptop. I do it for testing purposes mostly... I don't want anyone but myself to connect to this OAS. Sort of rich man's OA Desktop. First...
View ArticleLast occurrence of sub-string in a string - The locate function secret part...
I need to find the last occurrence of a specific character in a string (and using only the part that follows that character). For example in a string 'abc-de-fghi-jklm' I want to locate the last '-'...
View ArticleOracle Analytics Default date format in parameter
A quick reminder to my self:When creating a parameter and want to use it in filter / calculation, there must be a default. For date default this is the default format: DATE'2014-04-12'For example:...
View ArticleOracle Analytics Server 2025, AKA 8.2 is available
Oracle has released this year OAS version, OAS 2025, sometimes named internally, OAS 8.2.This is the official blog post about the release, it includes some new features too:...
View ArticleOracle Analytics, Data Flow, is there a row limit?
When working with Oracle Analytics we can use "Data Flow". This is end user oriented ELT tool. Usually the results are limited to 2 million rows, yet there is a case when the limitation doesn't kick...
View ArticleCustom exceptions UI in OAC/OAS table
Sometimes we want to create an exceptions UI that is beyond the regular options of the tool.Specifically, something like this:Let's see what was created by default and what is a customization...To...
View Articleתוצאות מבחני בגרות במתמטיקה 5 יחידות בשנים 2013-2023
משרד החינוך (+ התנועה לחופש המידע) מפרסם תוצאות מבחני בגרות לפי בתי ספר, החל משנת 2013. עד כה פורסמו התוצאות ברצף עד שנת 2023. הפרסום הוא לפי מקצוע + יחידות לימוד, למוסד חינוכי, לשנה מסוימת, כאשר אם יש...
View ArticleOracle DB MCP server - OracleCL, few links
Last week Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle DB MCP server, joining the general hype of MCP servers rather fast. Most of the materials were published by https://x.com/thatjeffsmith and...
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