Oracle Magazine, July/August 2019
ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2019 60 Database Developer OPEN SOURCE To simplify backup recovery It often makes more sense to reuse your existing database backup recovery strategies than to invent new ones for the file system To leverage advanced database security features From end to end encryption to advanced access controls Oracle Database has a lot to offer when it comes to security To index files and make them searchable Many document types can be made searchable with Google like search results via Oracle Text As you can see there are some good use cases for storing files in the database so lets get started SETUP AND API REQUIREMENTS In this article I assume youre running everything from within the Database App Development VM with Node js and Git installed See this post for instructions on setting up this type of environment You may use any other setup you wish but youll need to adapt the instructions that follow accordingly Ill pick up the code where I left off in the series on building a REST API with Node js To get access to the code for that series on GitHub run the following lines of code from a terminal cd git clone cd oracle db examples javascript rest api part 5 manual pagination sortingand filtering hr_ app This will clone the oracle db examples repo in GitHub and then change directories to the last article of that REST API series This will be your starting point for building out the API for uploading and downloading files with Node js
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