With Oracle Database 12.2 now available and Node.js 8 just around the corner, this is a great time to create a local sandbox for learning. Thanks to some prebuilt VMs provided by Oracle, you can have such an environment up and running in less than 20 minutes (excluding download times) without spending a dime! 😄
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Oracle JET, Oracle’s JavaScript toolkit for single page apps, includes over 80 components to help build enterprise JavaScript applications. But one thing JET doesn’t include is a set of icons – the argument being that different apps and teams will likely choose different icons. Luckily, it’s not too difficult to add Font Awesome to a JET app. If you’re using one of the starter apps without the Yeoman generator, have a look at Paul Thaden’s post on adding Font Awesome. In this post, I’ll show you how to add Font Awesome to a project created via the Yeoman generator.
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The current version of the Node.js driver (v1.12) doesn’t support binding record types directly. Does that mean you can’t invoke stored procedures and functions that use record types? Of course not! For now, you just have to decompose the record types for binding and then recompose them inside your PL/SQL block. Let’s have a look at an example…
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Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) allows developers to create REST interfaces to Oracle Database, Oracle Database 12c JSON Document Store, and Oracle NoSQL Database as quickly and easily as possible. When working with Oracle Database, developers can use the AutoREST feature for tables or write custom modules using SQL and PL/SQL routines for more complex operations. This post will explain what happens with dates as they move between ORDS and Oracle Database.
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Node.js is an excellent platform for creating RESTful APIs that store and retrieve data using Oracle Database. node-oracledb is the driver maintained by Oracle that allows Node.js developers to connect to and utilize the database. As data crosses the boundaries between JavaScript and Oracle Database, the driver automatically converts it to native data types on either end. This post explores how that conversion process works for datetime values.
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When I wrote a series of posts on creating JSON from relational data, I mentioned that dates could be tricky. That was a bit of an understatement. Dates, and the time zone conversions that often go along with them, can be outright daunting!
In this series, I hope to shed some light on the subject of dates in the context of JavaScript, JSON, and Oracle Database. As in the previous series, I’ll base things on a RESTful API scenario. The focus here will be on tracking a date from the browser to the database and then back from the database to the browser.
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We added a new JavaScript layer in the last release of the Node.js driver for Oracle Database. It added just one feature (connection request queueing) and didn’t include any API changes. However, there are currently two features being worked on that could bring such changes: ResultSet Streaming and Optional Promise Support.
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Today is a big day for JavaScript and Oracle for 2 reasons:
When I took my job at Oracle as a JavaScript Developer Advocate, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. JavaScript in a database company, really? But as time went on the list of JavaScript based initiatives I stumbled upon just grew and grew. Now the problem is trying to keep up with them all!
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Want to start working with Node.js and Oracle Database in a local sandbox? It’s easier than you might think. Thanks to some prebuilt VMs provided by Oracle, you can have such an environment up and running in less than 20 minutes – excluding download times, of course! 🙂
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I recently made an assumption about how requests for connections were handled by the Node.js driver. You know what they say about assumptions, right? 😀 In the Node.js driver, developers can create connection pools. A connection pool has settings, such as the minimum and maximum number of connections, and methods that allow you to get connections and release them.
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