Oracle Database has had the possibility to run Java code inside the database for a long time. It's a very rare occasion when you need to use it but still. Here is one example I used to download content from HTTPS website that required user certificates for authentication. Please take the code below more as an example how to put simple Java code inside the database, not as a solution for user certificates authentication, because UTL_HTTP can do the same thing (although I wasn't successful in implementing it under 11.2.0.2).

I just checked to find out that there has been 3,000 downloads of SLOB – The Silly Little Benchmark. People seem to be putting it to good use. That’s good.

Before I get very far in this post I’d like to take us back in time–back before the smashing popularity of the Orion I/O testing tool.

These days, to craft basic emails, I go with Email::Simple. For the more heavy stuff with attachements and what-nots, I reach out for Email::MIME. Together, they make a pretty awesome duo. But… (come on, admit it, you knew there was going to be a ‘but’) But there is a fairly common use-case that falls pretty [...]

For the third consecutive year, NoCOUG is hosting an international SQL challenge. Last year we ran into a small difficulty where the international DBA community proved too clever and solved the challenge before we could properly publicize it. A good DBA learns from her mistakes, and this year we are pre-announcing the challenge: The challenge [...]