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Response Format and REST-Enabled SQL service in ORDS

Hello fellas!! 👋 Today’s topic: Understanding the REST-Enabled SQL Service in ORDS and How to Customize its Response Format. Rest-Enabled SQL service in ORDS: The REST-Enabled SQL service is a HTTPS web service that provides access to the Oracle Database SQL engine. You can POST SQL statements to the service. The service then runs the SQL statements against Oracle Database and returns the result to the client in a JSON format. Example:  When making a request to the REST ENABLED SQL SERVICE, you typically by default get a response as the following:         curl --location 'http://localhost:8086/ords//<schema_alias>/_/sql' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -u "user:dummySecret" \ --data '{   "statementText": "select sysdate from dual"   }' This is typically how the response would look like: {     "env": {         "defaultTimeZone": "UTC"     },     "items": [       ...

ORDS Auto REST vs C# with Entity Framework.

Introduction  If you've ever built REST APIs using common used programming languages, you know the drill: create models, wire up a controller, connect to a database, map DTOs, validate, inject dependencies… and that’s before you even touch   security aspect of the api. 😅 Being a past c# lover, I started questioning how easy was it to build REST apis in ORDS compared to c#. Spoiler : ORDS is crazy simple for the basics. Let me show you a side-by-side comparison using the same use case — managing a Country table — and without diving into security (we’ll ignore auth and tokens, and we'll just focus on the   REST experience). Use Case We want to expose the following operations via REST: GET /countries — list all countries GET /countries/{id} — get one country POST /countries — create a new country PUT /countries/{id} — update a country DELETE /countries/{id} — remove a country Let’s see how much effort it takes.  Option 1:  C# with Entity Framework Core