Working with WTForms and Oracle REST Database Services (ORDS) APIs

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Current Flask application, made presentable by using Bootstrap for HTML and CSS

Welcome Back The title pretty much speaks for itself, and if you’ve been following along, you’d know that I’m working on a demo application that uses Flask (a web application microframework) connected to my Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) via Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) APIs. One of Flask’s strengths is that it allows you to … Read more

Updating VARCHAR2 fields in Oracle Database Actions

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Developer-Radar-Chart, Chris Hoina, Senior Product Manager, ORDS, Database Tools

Update I’ve run into more problems with this python/flask/ords/adb app idea of mine. Turns out I’m too [developer] dumb to do some of the things that I’d originally envisioned. Now that I’ve become more familiar with python, flask, the Oracle Autonomous Database, and our Database Tools (like ORDS and Database Actions), I’m realizing that I … Read more

Add Primary and Foreign Keys to your Oracle Autonomous Database

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New-Diagram-of-tables-in-the-Data-Modeler-Diagram-Editor-in-Database-Actions-in-Oracle-Autonomous-Database-Chris-Hoina-Senior-Product-Manager-Database-Tools-ORDS

I’m not a Database Administrator, but I feel as though I may be slowly evolving into one… In a previous post, I left myself the task of correcting the html on a proposed Python/Flask/ORDS/Autonomous Database application. My then next step was to add a search bar (which I did): Although this was a small step … Read more

Project Overview: python – flask – ORDS – Autonomous Database

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Explaining-my-python-flask-Autonomous-Database-and-ORDS-API-project-1

Update For the past week and a half I’ve been immersed in learning how python and flask interact with each other so a developer can create a quick/crude web application. I’ve also spent time becoming more familiar with virtual environments (as they pertain to python + flask), jinja, and WTForms (I’m sure I’m forgetting other … Read more