Jon Dixon

Sorry I don’t understand. Are you saying VS Code is choosing the model in this case?

There does not seem to be a correlation between the model in the Copilot chat and the model used by the Oracle SQLcl MCP server. Is there a way to choose the model for the Oracle SQLcl MCP server? @thatjeffsmith.com

I am happy today. Touch ID magically started working again on my Magic Keyboard. 😀

Er, don’t you mean AI World :)

OpenAI just announced open models. Perfect timing, you can use them today from PL/SQL with UC AI and Ollama.
openai.com/open-models/

#orclAPEX #ucai #plsql #oracle

UC AI v25.4 is live 🥳. New features:
- Reasoning: Let AI think about your problems
- Ollama: New provider that allow you to run models >>locally<<

#oracle #AI #orclAPEX #ucAI More here:
www.united-codes.com/products/uc-...

You don’t have to wait for 23ai for these features!

oracle-base.com/blog/2025/08...

@OracleDatabase #database #19c

Is Your APEX Environment Aging Quietly Oracle APEX apps run for years. Silent technical debt adds up. Learn how to assess & remediate aging apps to boost speed, security, & maintainability.

🚨 Is your Oracle APEX stack aging quietly? Years can pass with no issues until the hidden technical debt snowballs. I break down the silent risks, remediation strategies, and real-world lessons from migrating an APEX 18.2 app to OCI. blog.cloudnueva.com/is-your-apex... #orclAPEX

Yeah that ‘train of thought’ really went off the rails.

SQL Notebooks in Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code Introducing SQL Notebooks, a new way to work with Oracle Database SQL and PL/SQL scripts in the SQL Developer Extension for VS Code.

Tell #SQL stories with SQL Notebooks in Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code

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Ah, now I see why there was only one vote :)

Proof (if any were needed) that AI function calling is more popular than testing/evals 🤦

Just when you thought @slots.bsky.social blog posts couldn’t get any more meta. 😀 Seriously though keep it up. Your curiosity is excellent.

Fusion Data Intelligence Under the Hood: A Deep Dive into the Architecture In the previous post , we traced how Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) evolved from OBIA. In this second instalment of our FDI‑introductory series, you’ll explore the underlying technology and...

🚀 Just published: “Fusion Data Intelligence Under the Hood”
Explore how Oracle FDI unifies Fusion SaaS, ADW, OAC & AI into a secure, scalable Data Intelligence Platform.
Read the blog ➡️ www.elffar.co.uk/blog/fusion-...
#OracleAnalytics #FDI #analytics #ADW

The upload file first approach is what I used to do. Recently, I have been converting pdf, xlsx, docx to text using dbms_vector_chain.utl_to_text, and sending the plain text. You lose some document structure, but it works pretty well.

Are you converting to Base64 or does the Open AI receive a pdf blob directly?

Very disappointed in @alexnuijten.bsky.social he hardly moved when you ran by. 😊

Neue @devsontape.bsky.social -Folge 🎙️:
Markus Peppler zeigt, wie > 70 #orclapex-Apps täglich 1 000+ User begeistern , warum strenge Governance kein Innovationskiller ist und wie #KI trotzdem #on-prem klappt.
🎧 Hör rein: on.devsontape.com/mpe

#FinTech #Podcast #oracleace @oracleace.bsky.social

Demystifying the SQLcl MCP Server A deep dive into Oracle's SQLcl MCP Server: understanding its capabilities, testing its tools, and examining the security implications for database access through AI.

New blog post:
✅ What is the #SQLcl #MCP server
✅ How does it work under the hood
✅ Security concerns
✅ Tools vs. MCP
hartenfeller.dev/blog/demysti...

#oracle #orclAPEX

AI Functions and Oracle APEX Integrate AI function calling in APEX for efficient data retrieval, secure interactions, and enhanced business logic with custom tools.

Learn how you can use OpenAI’s function calling with PL/SQL in your APEX apps today.
✅ Skip the RAG overload
✅ Let LLMs ask for just the data they need
✅ Keep your logic & data secure in the DB
blog.cloudnueva.com/ai-function-...
#orclAPEX #LLM #OpenAI #functioncalling

🚀 New Blog for #orclapex
Learn how to extract every part of an Oracle APEX URL in JavaScript. Supports classic & friendly URLs, parameters, and more.
Check it out: mattmulvaney.hashnode.dev/extracting-e...

A new post (about an old feature) - "Mixed Feelings About MERGE"
db-oriented.com/2025/07/12/m...
@oracleace.bsky.social #ACED @sym42.bsky.social

Outer Joining With ANSI SQL-89 and SQL-92 Introduction I recently implemented a quick fix for the rule G-3130 to transform queries to ANSI SQL-92 syntax. One of the challenges was to handle Oracle’s outer-join syntax (+). In ANSI SQL-89, join...

Do your outer join queries produce more rows than expected? In this blog post, I show a strange result when using filter predicates in the join clause.

dbLinter can help you sort your join and filter criteria and spot issues like this.

www.salvis.com/blog/2025/07...

I begrudgingly use LinkedIn. It’s the better of two evils.. just

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

I found this super interesting. I think some of it is related to learning a new way of working. Some of it is just that we are not good at estimating! Worth a read metr.org/blog/2025-07...

I’m dumped Twitter a while ago. Sadly LinkedIn is the next best thing for engagement. We live in troubled times.

The Importance of AI Evaluations Discover why Evals are crucial in AI development, and how to implement them in your Oracle APEX AI solutions

Discover why evaluations or "Evals" are crucial in AI development and how to implement them in your Oracle APEX AI solutions. #evals #orclAPEX
blog.cloudnueva.com/why-evals-ar...

🥳 Playing with the brand new MCP server for Oracle SQLcl, running from VS Code.

💯 The results are in for last week's APEX Developer Blogs' Ask the Community' question. Universal Theme CSS classes just pipped to the post by Custom CSS.

Check out this week's question on your favorite APEX Printing tool. #orclAPEX apps.cloudnueva.com/apexblogs

Also rather disappointed to learn that this post was not about pandas that can type :(