(Brendan Tierney) Another of the new machine learning algorithms in Oracle 20c Database is called XGBoost. Most people will have come across this algorithm due to its recent popularity with winners of Kaggle competitions and other similar events.

(Connor McDonald) I had an AskTOM question come in with an issue trying to PL/SQL on an Active Data Guard (ADG) database (which of course is running in read-only mode).

(mdinh) Just some note:

(Simon Greener) I am continuing my looking at PostGIS and developing new functions for Oracle that plug-gaps identified in PostGIS. Much of this has been wrapping existing functions in my existing GEOM PL/SQL package, but some has involved developing new functions.

(Anuradha Mudgal) Today we are going to work on the steps which are used to clone Oracle Binaries. Sometimes we install Oracle software by using a utility such as tar to copy an existing installation of the Oracle binaries to a different server.

(Matthias Hoys) I recently blogged about Oracle’s Always Free ATP cloud database which includes APEX (currently version 19.2) out of the box.

(Anuradha Mudgal) Today we are going to explore the steps which we use for set IDLE TIME in Oracle Database. Let’s follow the steps.

(Liron Amitzi) In this post I’ll show what’s new in 20.2 Data Dictionary. To see comparison between other versions, check this post.

(Syed Jaffar Hussain) I have discussed in my earlier posts about establishing SQL * Plus and using the SQLcl tool details. Today’s blog post will take you through JDBC Thin client configuration details to be able to successfully connect with an autonomous database service.

(Niall Commiskey) Simple example here –