Tag Archives: Oracle

Get Oracle XE-ORDS-APEX Up and Running Quickly with Ansible

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Ajitabh

Oracle APEX is a rapid application development tool and from what I have seen its quite powerful. Clubed together with ORDS, it is a powerful tool to develop enterprise applications which are highly scalable.
I wrote an ansible playbook, which will quickly setup the entire stack. Read to find more. Continue reading →

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Running Oracle 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) XE in Docker Container

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Ajitabh

In DockerCon2017 Oracle announced the availability of Oracle containers in the docker hub. This was a great step forward. I have been thinking of trying Oracle in docker from quite a while for some personal projects, but was not finding … Continue reading →

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Connecting to Oracle Database over SSH using SQLDeveloper 4.1

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Ajitabh

As a system administrator, I try to follow the principle of least privilege (minimal privilege). Therefore, in the systems I install, I block all incoming and outgoing ports by default and open only when needed. While setting up Oracle XE … Continue reading →

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Installing Oracle Instant Client for Mac OSX

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Ajitabh

I came across few links for installing Oracle Instant Client on Mac OS X namely – this and this. But I don’t like to tinker with the System paths while installing any s/w manually. I did the same with perl … Continue reading →

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