Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Oracle now boasts two Low Code development tools for building new applications or extending your Cloud services:  Application Express (APEX) and Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS).  How do they measure up? Which is right for your organization?  Do they work together? Which is best, for which use cases?

This session presents APEX and VBCS side by side, using a simple common application to illustrate the talking points. 

Attendees will learn essential information for making an informed decision on which to use – or both. The session covers key features of each for development, deployment, costs, learning curve, usability, and time to master. For those who have not seen APEX or VBCS, or want to see the side by side comparison, here you go. Attendees will gain information to assess which cloud development tool is best for their business needs.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Use the latest technology on robotics, machine learning & Oracle chatbots to create the future with AI.  We will explore how to leverage and integrate robotics & machine learning into your companies tech plan.  We'll show the state of robotics and how you can test and use this technology to create the future.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

In this session, Blaine Carter will demonstrate how to REST enable your database using Oracle Rest Data Services (ORDS). He will demonstrate how to use SQL Developer to create and deploy REST services in ORDS. First, Blaine will "Auto Rest" enable a table and a PL/SQL package. Then, he will secure the API and create an OAuth2 client that can be used to access the service. Next, he will walk through the steps of creating a custom REST API using the REST Data Services wizard. This API will be used to POST image files into a BLOB column in the database and the GET handler will serve the image directly in a web page. You will leave this session with an understanding of how to quickly create REST services on your own database.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Setting up Cloud Environments using the Web UI is only the second-best option. The method of choice is Scripting. While HashiCorps Terraform has become the lingua franca for defining large setups, it appears to be a bit unwieldy for small changes. Oracle provides the OCI Command Line Interface (CLI) as OpenSource on GitHub, which is ideal for those small changes.

This talk introduces to Scripting with the OCI CLI. It walks through the process of setting it up. A quick orientation is followed by a deep dive in the command line and JSON Parameters. Tips and Tricks as well as common caveats an how to avoid them lead to the conclusion. The presentation contains a live demo. All Demos are available for download.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

ChatOps is an automation model connecting users and tools to processes through messaging applications. It leverages the simplicity and familiarity of chat to empower users to interact directly with applications and databases, retrieving information, and performing work in real-time. Done right, ChatOps is a safe, agile way to minimize or eliminate tedious, repetitive operational tasks and reduce workloads. Virtually anything can be automated or called via ChatOps through simple commands—from self-service password resets, to initiating reporting cycles, to running ad hoc refreshes of development environments—all without granting end users access to a database or application.

This session covers:
-Connecting Oracle databases in the Cloud or on-premises to chat services via REST
-Considerations for building database APIs to handle ChatOps interactions
-Methods for securing communications between the database and application
-Practical examples of ChatOps integrations

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Want to learn about Git? If you are thinking about using a Version Control System, this is a session you must attend, also this is a must-have skill for DBAs, Developers and Product Managers! Learn how we implemented this type of technology at CloudDB and how we are been beneficiate by it!

Learn all about Git and Oracle Developer Cloud Services and how to Streamline Team Development and Software Delivery using a SaaS solution.

You will be able to plan and manage: Issue tracking, Team management, Agile Dashboard.

With regards to code: Version management, code review, and track changes.

Plus build and deliver (continuous integration, orchestration, deployment automation) and finally team collaboration (activity stream, wiki, web dashboard).

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

APEX Interactive Grids have a myriad of customization options, some declarative, and most via JavaScript APIs.  How to stay sane, organized, and consistent with so many options? Standardize!  Delivering clean, uniform, customized interactive grids within a single application, or across many developers, many applications across an organization is less difficult than you think.

We will demonstrate use of a common configuration file and classes to standardize grid features across your applications. Decide upon your grid options, code them once, then include and use everywhere. Better yet, not everyone needs to be a JavaScript expert to implement your standard grid configurations. Attend to learn how to standardize grid customization, and save on sanity.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

MySQL 8 introduced a new tool for DBAs. In this training session, we will explore the tool availability, installation, and usage. This tool is called MySQLShell and contains many features and  APIs that are very effective to manage the servers. MySQL/Oracle DBA can use this tool to explore the database using their Python/Javascript or Xconnector skills. This tool helps to download JSON documents to MySQL instance. We will go into details about many features that are very useful in daily DBA's tasks.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

The majority of modern IT solutions consist of multiple systems communicating using APIs. The “common language” is usually JSON. Unfortunately, the Oracle RDBMS did not have native JSON support until version 12c. Previously, developers had to use either third-party tools (the most popular was PL/JSON) or write their own code to support JSON processing. When it comes to database upgrades, the question arises: Should we utilize new features or not? This question is especially relevant when you need to edit 10,000+ lines of code and core system functionality.  The authors decided to accept a challenge and migrate from PL/JSON to Oracle native JSON and share their story with conference attendees.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the only right approach in the cloud. We will discuss how to use the IaaC on your cloud environment and manage your Oracle cloud with Terraform, Packer, Kubernetes, and Resource Manager OCI services. In the presentation, we also going to touch some other cloud-related subjects like lifecycle, cost management and other sides of managing infrastructure and databases in the cloud.