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HashiCorp’s Shift to Business Source License: A personal view

Announcements, Articles, Emerging Tech, General, Security / By Arun Yadav

What is Hashicorp? Headquartered in San Francisco, Hashicorp is a software company that offers open-source tools and commercial products like terraform and vault that enables users like you and me to deploy, run, connect, and secure cloud infrastructure. What is Terraform? Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp that allows …

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Intro to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and APEX

Articles / By Chris Frost

What is the Oracle cloud all about? For those who have not had the chance to meddle with Oracle’s latest cloud offering, this presentation will provide an overview of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Attached are slides from the February 28th session with Christoph Ruepprich.

Back to Basics: The Art of Conversation

Articles / By Chris Frost

Written by Patrick Donlin Introduction In a digital age, social and business networking sites, job boards, tweeting, blogging etc., provide untold volumes of information that must be sifted, sorted and assessed before becoming usable in a meaningful way. Engaging your network through personal face-to-face conversations is a dying art, and one that is unmatched …

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Collections in PL/SQL: An Introduction

Articles / By Chris Frost

Written by Bob Watkins, Managing Partner of B. Watkins Collections are an essential tool in PL/SQL programming. In this article, we’ll take a look at what collections are, why they’re important, and how to declare and use them. What are collections? Collections are datatypes that you use to declare variables in your PL/SQL program. Unlike …

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Data Guard for Dummies

Articles / By Chris Frost

Written by Charles Kim, Oracle ACE and an Oracle Certified DBA Data Guard provides a simple solution to protect your data. Data Guard maintains standby databases as transactionally consistent copies of the production database. These standby databases can be located at remote disaster recovery sites thousands of miles away from the production data center, or …

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