Roger Ford

Principal Product Manager

Roger Ford has been at Oracle since 1987. He started writing code for Oracle 6, and has worked in Development, Support, Technical Marketing and Product Management.

Recent Blogs

Learn about Oracle Text

Oracle Text has been described as "Oracle's best-kept secret". A powerful full-text search engine, built in to the Oracle Database.

Oracle Text and Accented Characters

Oracle Text works with text in many languages. Many of those languages use accented characters, and Oracle Text has a variety of options for dealing with them.

Using JSON documents and don’t know what you’re looking for? Search ...

Oracle has powerful capabilities for handling JSON. It also has flexible capabilities for full-text searching, like keyword search, phrase search, or proximity search. We're going to see how these capabilities meet in the JSON search index to provide the powerful functionality of full text search in an optimized manner for all your JSON documents

Oracle Sauce Video’s Migration Story: Real-time migration of MongoDB ...

Sauce Video relies on an ecosystem of OCI Services, including Autonomous JSON Database, to manage its customer-facing operations. This blog describes how they migrated their MongoDB-based applications to Oracle Autonomous JSON Database and gained operational simplicity at scale.

Indexing Text in Object Storage

With DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_EXTERNAL_TEXT_INDEX you can index documents in the OCI Object Store.

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