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I got a nasty shock this morning when I fired up my local Application Expression installation.

It had been working fine and all of a sudden…just dead. I sounded like all of those family members that as I.T practitioners we have to deal with (and that we’re so sceptical of) when they say: “I didn’t change anything…it just stopped!”

In keeping with the treatment of family members, I then adopted the advice that I normally give them first.

By Franck Pachot

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You like SQL Developer because it is easy to install (just unzip a jar) and has a lot of features? Me too. It can be even easier if it is provided as a web application: no installation, and no java to take all my laptop RAM…
When I say no installation, you will see that you have some little things to setup here in DBaaS. That will probably be done for you in the managed services (PDBaaS) such as ‘Express’ and ‘Autonomous’ ones.

Seamless cloning of an application stack is an outstanding goal. Seamless cloning of an application stack including the full production database, application server, and webserver in a few minutes with next to zero disk space used or configuration required is the best goal since Alexander Graham Bell decided he wanted a better way tell Mr. Watson to “come here.”

Especially on this Monday it seems all about new database data intern ration technologies and…