Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 2: MySQL

This is Part 2 of my series of four blog articles recording my experiences trying out the Oracle Cloud using the 30 day / $300 Free Trial offer.  In this blog-post I cover provisioning a new MySQL database service.   The process for doing this is very simple and quick to achieve, as this blog post …

REST Calls to Oracle Database with Python and ORDS (2)

This is my second blog entry on using Oracle Rest Data Services to with Python Requests to use the Oracle database via RESTful API calls. The first article gives an overview of ORDS and basic setup as well as some query (GET)  and update (PUT) examples as well as enabling debugging. This article covers database insert …