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Not forever but plenty far out.
02.08.2025 20:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 019c is a great platform, getting new features on a regular basis.
02.08.2025 19:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Were running 23ai in production all over the place.
02.08.2025 19:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0It's available on prem now, via engineered appliances and oracle cloud at customer.
You can also join our beta program if you want to to have a go on your local machines.
Its not a dba role because they dont want to pay dba wages.
02.08.2025 17:16 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New post: using our MCP Server to allow our LLM to fix our Oracle Database table comments
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Name a word only product managers can spell.
I'll start:
d-e-p-r-e-c-a-t-e-d
Def: to kill something no one uses, except for those 5 people who are going to be real mad because they're using it.
If you tell someone 'it does not work,' w/o providing details, don't be surprised when you get a screenshot response...showing it working.
30.07.2025 13:53 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So what's for lunch?
28.07.2025 09:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We should rename this to "greatest"
28.07.2025 09:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FF, better than good.
Kept thinking, wow they really cared about the comics.
Maybe nerfed G a bit, but it still worked.
red alert keyboard shortcut
24.07.2025 23:13 β π 145 π 20 π¬ 5 π 2Tell #SQL stories with SQL Notebooks in Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code
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Along with markdown blocks to describe the data
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Ok so on GUI it seems we have a process bug
No clue on sqlcl will see what I can figure out
Had another set of tns parser bugs to step on.
For your connection, does it work in sqlcl w/o a password prompt?
Absolutely!
22.07.2025 09:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0...me from @techtargetnews.bsky.social today
read the full story here
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TechTarget:
"The industry has adopted MCP extremely quickly, and the potential was obvious from the beginning," he said. "We evaluated it internally and saw quite clearly that the potential for Oracle Database users was real. The key is doing it in a way that makes sense, is secure and will scale."
Wake Forest is a great town, but its sooooo far away. Like Fuquay Varina, but with better beer.
20.07.2025 20:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs good to have haters, right?
20.07.2025 15:03 β π 129 π 2 π¬ 40 π 1a follow up βοΈ
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A deeper dive on MCP for Oracle Database
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Official announcement/introduction to our MCP Server for Oracle Database
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Heads-up, we just pushed update 25.2.1 for our SQLDev extension for VS Code.
Heads-up #2, be sure you're on VS Code version 1.101 or higher to get our extension updates!
Two 1980s records Europe's The Final Countdown Alice Cooper's Poison
Now playing
12.07.2025 20:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dont spoil your vacay, it'll be here when you get back!
12.07.2025 15:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Agent mode upgraded with an MCP Server for Oracle Database, yes please!
oracle.com/sqlcl
Claude is smart enough to know I didn't run that many miles, so it did some maths based on the elapsed time per run I had recorded in my oracle database table, and decided (CORRECTLY) that Strava uses METERS
And i just told it to look in my fun database and figure out how many miles I've ran...
there is one main connection, used for browsing - the tree stuff, and then by default there is a dedicated connection per worksheet/notebook - so if you need to reconnect there's multiple
you can alleviate this by disabling the multiple connections feature in preferences