Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

When I joined Oracle in 2001, Oracle started in the applications business and explored middleware, as the company is built on the successful database business. As part of my introduction bootcamp Andrew Sutherland gave as an overview in relational database technology. I would have never dreamed to share the Oracle conference center stage with Andy Mendelson head of the database business at Oracle. It was an honor to summarize his Data Management keynote at the Oracle Cloud...

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0, the latest release of the world’s most popular free and open source, cross-platform virtualization software. This release provides tight integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, enabling organizations and developers to more easily and flexibly create applications on premises and deploy to the cloud with a few clicks. A key tool for developers and users creating cloud and local applications...

Are you a RESTafarian? Or are you a GraphQL aficionado? Either way you'll want to listen to the latest Oracle Groundbreaker Podcast, as a panel of experts weighs the pros and cons of each technology. Representational State Transfer, known to its friends as REST, has been around for nearly two decades and has a substantial following. GraphQL, on the other hand, became publicly available in 2015, and only a few weeks ago moved under the control of the GraphQL Foundation, a...

This post is more a note for myself. I need to demo HCM extract functionality via the OIC HCM adapter. I have access to an HCM environment - but don't have an extract to play with. So I do the following - export one of the preseeded Extracts - Worker - and then import under a new name. As you can see, I added Delivery options - specifying Output Type - Data - so as to avoid having to specify a Report(BI/Report) / Template Name. Note: Delivery Type is set to WebCenter Content.I...

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  eProseed has created a participation app to increase the involvement of citizens in decisions made by municipalities. The solution consists of a mobile JET app for voting on topics and a backend to store the votes using Blockchain and OpenID Connect. For more information please visit the solution catalog. Watch the video here. We want to promote your customer success! Have you implemented successful a solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform? Submit your success story via...

Oracle Cloud Platform Digital Assistant 2019 Associate (1Z0-1071) Certification Oracle Digital Assistant provides the platform and tools to easily build AI-powered assistants that connect to your backend applications. A digital assistant uses artificial intelligence for natural language processing and understanding, to automate engagements with conversational interfaces that respond instantly, improve user satisfaction, and increase business efficiencies. Why to become a...

Digital transformation is inevitable if want to thrive in today’s economy.  We've heard about how application and data integration play a central role in business transformations.  Since data has become a valuable commodity, integration plays a critical role in sharing data with applications in hybrid cloud environments or populating data lakes for analytics.  In these two podcasts you can learn how easy it is to seamlessly integrate data for these use cases. Successful...

On my todo list, I found a topic which I wanted to blog about for a long time. The problem is how to create a ViewObject, based on EntityObjects, which builds a full outer join between two tables. For those of you who don’t know about full outer joins in SQL here is a short description from https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join_full.asp: The FULL OUTER JOIN keyword return all records when there is a match in either left (table1) or right (table2) table records. Note: FULL OUTER...