ORDS is nice. It auto-formats your SQL or PL/SQL results and response to JSON before returning to your client or application. But what if you’re response is ALREADY in JSON? Like this: Bad ORDS trying to convert JSON to JSON Good You telling ORDS we’re not just dealing with a CLOB, it’s actually JSON. Here’s that media post… The Media …
Modeling JSON in Oracle Database Tables
Having an extra bit bucket in your tables is pretty easy now in Oracle Database 12c and higher. We offer native JSON support [JSON DOCS] – you can have a free form text column and store anything you want in it. AND, we pretty much give you the full power of the SQL interface to those bit bucket items – …
Quick Tip: Global Where Clause for Database Exports
Want to export a ton of tables, but only get SOME of the records? Want to apply a GLOBAL filter across the tables to only get the records you want? Tools > Database Export. I’m going to export data, NOT DDL. I’m going to write it to a single JSON file. I’m going to grab data from a couple of …
Oracle as a Document Store {JSON} and Oracle SQLcl
JSON – it’s the new whiz bang. JavaScript has taken off, and you don’t need to take my word for it. And with JavaScript comes JSON. There are so many libraries on GitHub that are about turning data into really slick web and mobile applications. We have our own set of libraries available – have you heard of Oracle JET? …
REST Enabling Your Tables: Insert Rows via POST
One of the coolest features of Oracle REST Data Services v3.0 and higher, is the ability to REST enable your Oracle tables and views. You get a full REST api on your table – INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, Select with or without predicates and sorting, and getting metadata. You can also batch load records. I’ve talked about the SELECT and GET …
Quick JSON Query Tip: Use Column Aliases for Arrays of Objects
This isn’t a SQL Developer post, sorry folks. When it takes me more than a couple of Google searches and more than a little bit of poking around to figure something out, I reckon it’s blog-post-worthy. Maybe I can save you a bit of time too! I have: a 12.1.0.2 database the JSON patchset a table said table with IS …
IS JSON or IS NOT JSON, That is VERY EASY to Figure Out
Working on some cool demos around JSON, ORDS, Oracle Database, JavaScript apps, etc. and I needed to load up a BUNCH of data to play with. Note the ‘other_tags’ column LOOKS like JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). There are JSON standards – should the key name and value strings be double or single quoted, etc. To ID text as JSON in …
Deploying Oracle REST Data Services from Oracle SQL Developer
REST is Representational State Transfer for short. It’s how a lot of the Internet works for long, and I’m not going to tell that story. But. When you see an application making PUT or GET requests over HTTP or HTTPS, that’s REST. Anyways, before I make myself sound any more ignorant, let’s talk about Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS). ORDS …
30 SQL Developer Posts in 30 Days, Day 30: Getting Your Data to the Web
You have a query. You run a query. Now how can I take that data and make it available in a web browser or application? Export as HTML You can of course export your resultset as HTML using the Grid, right mouse, Export, to HTML. This will give you something like this… Don’t forget the hint! Remember, lazy-dev method: SELECT …