Sphinx Blog

01. März 2025

Apex Office Print by Sphinx

Official reseller partnership for the innovative document generation solution for Oracle APEX
14. Feb. 2025

AiSEC Blog #1

Wie kann man Vorteile, die LLMs & andere AI-Technologien bieten, nutzen, ohne sensible Daten zu verlieren?
25. Nov. 2024

Retrieving Directory Contents from Nextcloud Using Oracle ..

The get_directory_contents function is our powerful Oracle PL/SQL solution for querying directory contents from a Nextcloud server.
25. Okt. 2023

Swingbench Analysis: Power versus Intel

We aim to answer the question: How many Intel CPUs are needed to match the performance of my current Power CPUs?
25. Sept. 2023

Oracle DB+ Client

One of the challenges faced by database administrators and developers is ensuring secure communication between the database client and the server.
07. Aug. 2023

Bug or Feature? Oracle Apex 23.1 Template Component

Looking for a solution - incl. info from Oracle, nice to know
01. Aug. 2023

Create Standby with Oracle 19.16?

Some bugfixing ideas for bug 34446152. Okay after upgrade (19.20)
01. Aug. 2023

Clone VM in ESXi

That´s the way to-go with ESXi - a how to in our Blog.
28. Juli 2023

Easy Autoupgrade / Autopatch Oracle

Out-of-Place 19.20 within Sphinx Environment. Works fine, it can be used for x databases in one script.
24. Juli 2023

Streamlined Oracle Installation Guide

In this concise blog post, we present a comprehensive Oracle installation guide for VMWARE users.
05. Juli 2023

Beyond the Limits

Requirement: Every table of any schema should be editable ...
06. Juni 2023

Oracle Apex 23.1

Oracle APEX 23.1 has introduced a number of new features and improvements that enhance and expand the development experience.
06. Juni 2023

Exasol Virtual Schema Performancetest

In today’s world, where companies manage vast amounts of data, efficient data management is increasingly crucial.
19. Apr. 2023

Oracle Security Patches

We would like to inform you that it’s patching day again, even though many of our customers have their databases located behind a secure network firewall.
14. Apr. 2023

About our Chart Series

The topics covered in this chart series explore the types of charts used in data visualization.
13. Apr. 2023

Understanding Data Patterns with Area Charts

Area charts are a type of data visualization that display quantitative data over time or across categories.
11. Apr. 2023

Oracle 23c: A Necessary Upgrade for the Future

Oracle 23c is the latest version of Oracle’s database software, and it’s a necessary upgrade for the future.
31. März 2023

How Heat Maps Can Help You

A heat map is a graphical representation of data in which different values are represented by different colors.
30. März 2023

Power of Bubble Charts

If you’re looking to explore the power of bubble charts, Hans Rosling is the man to turn to.
30. März 2023

ALERTs on Oracle 19.17 at RHEL 8

After a new installation of an Oracle 19 CDB+PDB database we always look at the alert.log.
30. März 2023

The End of the Oracle-DB - Links?

Database links in autonomous database shared are the past – cloud links are the future.
29. März 2023

Voting Behaviour with Sankey Diagrams

Sankey diagrams can be useful in analyzing voter behavior in elections.
27. März 2023

Making Sense of Box Plots

Are you feeling overwhelmed by box plots? If so, you’re not alone! Interpreting data can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be.
24. März 2023

Gantt Charts: A Must-Have Tool for Every Project Manager

As a project manager, I know how important it is to stay organized and on top of things.
22. März 2023

How Line Charts Helped Me Visualize Data Better

As someone who loves working with data, I’ve always been a fan of visualizing it in a way that makes it easier to understand.
21. März 2023

The Bar Chart

There is an amusing anecdote about a bar chart depicting the pros and cons of coffee versus tea.
08. März 2023

When the Time is not Right

Customer reports that the time does not arrive correctly from SQL Server to Exasol – basically daylight saving times.
07. März 2023

Our Top-Technical-Pains

A list of our Top-Technical-Pains - see for yourself!
07. März 2023

Exasol One Year Experience

Exasol and Oracle are both powerful relational database management systems that can be used for different use cases.