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Say Hello From An Autonomous Database

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Adrian Png
Director of Innovation, AI and Cloud Solutions @ Insum, a Talan Company

New features announced for Oracle Autonomous Database

In case you missed it, Oracle recently announced the availability of a new feature for the Autonomous Database (ADB) that allows developers and database administrators to send messages using either emails, Slack, or Microsoft Teams (Teams). At Insum, we use teams for internal communications and collaboration, and thus, you can appreciate my excitement when I heard about this feature release. Here's an early guide to getting started with DBMS_CLOUD_NOTIFICATION for those using Teams at their organisation.

Mail Dropped

· 10 min read
Adrian Png
Director of Innovation, AI and Cloud Solutions @ Insum, a Talan Company

Screen capture of http://www.mail-tester.com/ Results

Before I begin, I just wanted to be absolutely clear that this post has nothing to do with Apple's nifty tool for sending out large email attachments.

In my previous post, I shared an approach for creating your very own Oracle Application Express (APEX) instance on a small budget. Briefly, the solution involves using Vagrant to create a very affordable virtual machine (VM) on Linode's pool of servers and run the OXAR build script, to setup the APEX instance very quickly and painlessly.

However, all that power (and savings) comes with great responsibilty.