Recent years have shown an upshift of open source technologies with an evident increase in hybrid applications from licensed and proprietary tools. One such popular technology is Python programming language, which has made its way to the top. Most of its popularity can be attributed to the variety of options it provides for visualization and machine learning alongside the application development and automation. This article will primarily focus on how Python’s graphing libraries can be used to understand data from a database administrator’s (DBA’s) perspective.

Hear from the SELECT editors about what they're looking forward to this year at COLLABORATE 19.
Each year, thousands of Oracle technology users gather at COLLABORATE to exchange knowledge and learn from some of the industry’s best minds. Held April 7-11 this year in San Antonio, Texas, COLLABORATE 19 offers more than 1,000 sessions and panels to choose from, focusing on first-hand experiences, case studies, and practical how-to content. If you’re looking to sharpen your skills and make meaningful peer-to-peer connections, COLLABORATE 19 is the place to be.

Hear from the SELECT editors about what they're looking forward to this year at COLLABORATE 19.
Each year, thousands of Oracle technology users gather at COLLABORATE to exchange knowledge and learn from some of the industry’s best minds. Held April 7-11 this year in San Antonio, Texas, COLLABORATE 19 offers more than 1,000 sessions and panels to choose from, focusing on first-hand experiences, case studies, and practical how-to content. If you’re looking to sharpen your skills and make meaningful peer-to-peer connections, COLLABORATE 19 is the place to be.

Last month I wrote about lists and the thought process in choosing between a bulleted list versus a numbered list. Recall that I suggested using bulleted lists for collections of items, and numbered lists for sequences of steps. While that’s good advice, some cases can be spun in either direction. Sometimes the decision between a collection of items and process has more to do with your specific approach to a topic than to the nature of the list items.

The frenetic pace of application development in modern IT organizations means it’s not unusual to demand an application be built with minimal requirements gathering – literally, from a napkin-based sketch – to a working first draft of the app within extremely short time frames – even a weekend! – with production deployment to follow just a few days later. This article – the second in this ongoing series – focuses on how easy it is to leverage Oracle APEX to build the first of several components of a sufficiently-robust application for election canvassers to identify, classify, and inform voters in a huge northwest suburban Chicago voting district.

The frenetic pace of application development in modern IT organizations means it’s not unusual to demand an application be built with minimal requirements gathering – literally, from a napkin-based sketch – to a working first draft of the app within extremely short time frames – even a weekend! – with production deployment to follow just a few days later. This article – the second in this ongoing series – focuses on how easy it is to leverage Oracle APEX to build the first of several components of a sufficiently-robust application for election canvassers to identify, classify, and inform voters in a huge northwest suburban Chicago voting district.