Month: October 2022

Oracle Apex on Autonomous with custom ORDS

In one of my recent blogs I’ve described how you can use Nginx as a reverse proxy to assign your custom domain name to the Oracle Apex on Autonomous database. But you still use the default ORDS managed by Oracle. What if you want to change some ORDS parameters? For example you might decide to change the “low” type of connection to “high” or “medium”. In this post I will describe how to install your custom ORDS to work with Autonomous databases in standalone mode, using only Tomcat and Apache http server with Tomcat as the frontend.

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Oracle Linux in-place upgrade. Good, bad and the cloud. #JoelKallmanDay

Oracle Linux 7 was released in 2014 and the system is close to its sunset. The premier support for the system will be wrapped up by July 2024 and it is time to think about moving forward. All the new systems, as I can see, are using version 8 and some even version 9. So it is time for an upgrade. And when we speak about upgrading we usually have two options – in-place and out-of-place. The in-place upgrade modifies the system on the same box keeping all the users data intact and the second approach is more like a migration when you move all your app stack and data to a new box with a new version of the OS. So, how difficult is the in-place upgrade and when it makes sense?

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