Ian Carpenter

Why does my call to json_table return null for a column despite it not being empty? I recently worked on a fun project involving JSON and Oracle Database 23ai. I had to store rather large JSON documents, individual field lengths exceeding what I usually see. No problem with that, …

🔍 Seeing NULL from JSON_TABLE in Oracle even when the JSON field you query isn't null? It might be due to very long text values.

Here's how to debug & fix it 👉 martincarstenbach.com/2025/08/07/w... #OracleDB #JSON #SQLTips

How is AlmaLinux OS is community-driven? with benny Vasquez In this episode, Scott Hanselman sits down with benny Vasquez, Chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, to explore the project's journey since the shift away from CentOS. benny shares insights into how A...

Thanks @scott.hanselman.com and @bennyvasquez.bsky.social for this superb and accessible show on #AlmaLinuxOS I leant a lot from your conversation 🙌

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Statue plan to honour 19th Century computing pioneer in Hinckley Project organisers hope to highlight the mathematician's childhood links to the town.

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Using Claude to ‘fix’ my table comments via our MCP Server Using our new Oracle Database MCP Server with Claude desktop to improve some TABLE comments in my schema. With and without good columns names!

New post: using our MCP Server to allow our LLM to fix our Oracle Database table comments

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The Art of Assembly: Exploring Low-Level Mastery with Randall Hyde In this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott Hanselman talks with Randall Hyde, renowned for his expertise in programming and assembly language. Known as the creator of the Lisa Assembler and the author of...

this one with with Randall Hyde.

Both excellent shows, thank you! 🙌

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APIs as the Execution Layer of AI with Postman's Rodric Rabbah In this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott Hanselman chats with Roderick Rabah, Head of Product at Postman Flows, about the evolution of software development, the intersection of APIs and AI, and finding...

Thanks @scott.hanselman.com for the latest couple of Hanselminute shows. Really enjoyed your conversation with Rodric Rabbah in www.hanselminutes.com/1005/apis-as... as well...

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TEDx Talk - Tech promised everything, but did it deliver? youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

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I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

It's super inefficient (and expensive) to have an LLM work on your data and files (CSV, markdown, whatever) directly. Have it create a script for you instead. I made a video about "compiling" markdown to one of @adamwathan.com's new Tailwind templates this way:

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Scott and I have a great time in our latest podcast episode vibe coding a web site that analyzes our podcast recordings to show us who talks more...my suspicions were confirmed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tST...

Dynamic Statistics for PL/SQL Functions in Oracle Database 23ai

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.NET Rocks! .NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Do you have AI concerns? So does Mark Seemann!

Mark talks on .NET Rocks at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1960 about his view on the impact that large language models are having on the development community!

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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

Looking forward to watching this as I’ve enjoyed your chats with @markrussinovich.bsky.social on several episodes of Scott and Mark learn to… where you talked about the build up, coaching etc.

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Thanks @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social for another superb episode of Scott and Mark learn to...

"Mark cd" looks amazing, 🤯🙌

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Yesterday's video record for our MCP for @OracleDatabase introduction with @krisrice

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I love the show @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social learn to. Slightly embarrassingly, I thought it was only available on YouTube and not as a podcast. When Mark literally referred to it as "a podcast" I had my revelation. Here's the links:

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What are the latest innovations coming in Azure?

@markrussinovich.bsky.social talks on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/991 about some of the new hardware in the cloud, and how they helps with extreme optimization for specific workloads!

How do you get more from GitHub in your work routine?

@theaprilyoho.dev talks on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/990 about how sysadmins can take advantage of more GitHub features to make better quality scripts!

Having Money != Being Smart

They are not smarter than you

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In today's Microsoft Build session replay...
Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman put everything they learned at Microsoft Build together into one epic demo for the ages. Tune in: 🎥 https://msft.it/63322SiCRo

Prompt Injection is a top risk for use of LLMs, where untrusted data can cause a system to misbehave or leak data. We're hard at work on deterministic solutions to prevent or bound the risk, and just published a paper on our innovative information flow control approach: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23643

Great show as always @patrick.risky.biz and Adam. 🙌

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This week's show is up!

Google, Crowdstrike, PAN and Microsoft are agreeing to end fragmented naming conventions for APTs. We think that's a good thing.

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Please let this be the title of the next Scott and Mark learn to… episode

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Thank you @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social for the latest and one of the funniest Scott and Mark Learn To..

Hilarious from the start with bifocal mode, hidden bodies and more. Superb stuff Gents 🙌

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Our Build closing keynote was so fun - watch to find out if we get a robot to fetch Scott his diet cokes:

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Our closing locknote (keynote opens… 🔒) with @markrussinovich.bsky.social is up! Absolutely insane and tense series of entirely live demos! May have been our best talk ever with a nail biting finale youtu.be/KIFDVOXMNDc?...

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Thanks @robconery.com tip regarding setting github.copilot.chat.commitMessageGeneration.instructions which has supercharged an already superb timesaving feature Excellent stuff mate 🙌

Panel 1: all terminal programs have 1 input and 2 outputs they're numbered: stdin is "0", stdout is "1", stderr is "2". (the numbers are called "file descriptors") panel 2: you can set them to be any file you want person: “I don't want to display the output in my terminal emulator, I want to write it to a file” person: “I'll have the proram read input from a file instead of typing it in" panel 3: 3 things you can set the inputs/outputs to 1. the TTY (so output is displayed in your terminal emulator) 2. a file 3. a pipe (to write output to the input of another program) panel 4: your shell is in charge of setting up stdin/stdout/stderr person: “python3 script.py > out.txt” shell: “ok, I'll set stdout to out.txt for that program” more about the syntax on page 15 panel 5: on 2>&1 2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout you could also do 1>&2 but I've never used this N>&M syntax for anything other redirecting stderr to stdout panel 6: gotcha: programs often buffer stdout but not stderr when a program writes text to stdout, it'll often 1. check if stdout is a TTY (using the isatty function) 2. if not, "buffer" the writes until there's 1KB of data to write, for performance reasons (this is the default in libc)

stdin, stdout, and stderr

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