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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 What is it? The REST-Enabled SQL service is an 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: Making a Request When making a request to the REST-Enabled SQL Service, you typically get a response by default that looks like this: Sample Request curl --location 'http://localhost:8086/ords/<schema_alias>/_/sql' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -u "user:dummySecret" \ --data '{ "statementText": "select sysdate from dual" }' Default Response Format ...

ORDS vs C# for Building REST APIs: Which is Easier? If you've ever built REST APIs using commonly 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 the security aspect of the API. 😅 Being a past C# lover, I started questioning how easy it was 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 — without diving into security (we'll ignore auth and tokens and 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 ...