- Hassan Raza
- June 26, 2026
- Bonfire
Why Oracle Database Never Had a Version 1
The Developer’s Bonfire • Episode 01 • June 27, 2026 A monthly series of industry folklore, retold over coffee. Published every last Friday of the
The first time I worked with Oracle APEX dynamic actions, I deleted the wrong setting in Page Designer and spent twenty minutes wondering why my
Same skills, very different pay. A personal view from inside Pakistan’s Oracle scene, with the numbers and their limits made explicit. I shipped a PL/SQL
Oracle APEX 26.1 dropped on May 14, 2026. The release notes run 90+ pages. You have production apps, deadlines, and real work waiting. So here
Reviewed 14 October 2026: This conceptual overview now distinguishes data models from products and cloud services, and corrects the earlier NoSQL, free-edition, licensing, security and
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Your Oracle database is the backbone of your business. It runs payroll, powers the ERP, stores eight years of transactional history. And every hour it
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Your manager just walked in. Budget is gone. Timeline is tight. But there is an Oracle Database already running in production, and someone needs to
In 2026, I became an Oracle ACE Associate Pakistan. If you told me a year ago that a developer from Wah Cantt, Punjab would be