Niall Mc Phillips

I've just published a blog post about a tool I've made to help with seeding and publishing APEX application translations.

#orclapex @oracleace.bsky.social

blog.longacre.ch/2025/08/usin...

Nice reflection on my screen today.

YouTube video by Shirley Tung Blackadder Johnson's Dictionary

This has all happened before:
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So that's why you're a DBA!
You're looking for the same adrenaline high as you get while skydiving. 🪂

To paraphrase an old adage:
"No one ever got fired for choosing IBM as a partner".

I'll be happy to see #IBM at #PIOUG2025 in September.

Mmmm... soupe au pistou

Want to update all your ollama models at once on MacOs?
Here's a one-liner for you:

ollama list | tail -n +2 | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u | xargs -I {} sh -c 'echo "🔄 Updating {}"; ollama pull "{}"; echo'

#ollama #macos

For those who have maybe never heard of Algol…

First developed in 1958, ALGOL is now 67 years old and is happily retired in Alsace.

Quantum for Good - how quantum technologies can make a difference, ensuring everyone can be ready to benefit from the 2nd quantum revolution.

Another interesting presentation at the ITU’s UN Global Summit “AI for Good”.

#QuantumForGood #AIforGood

Meredith Whittaker, CEO of Signal, warns us of the security risks inherent in agentic AI at ITU’s UN AI for Good summit.

Is the data upon which the AIs are trained fundamentally skewed and flawed to the disadvantage of developing countries.

An interesting presentation by Abeba Birhane at the UN’s AI for Good summit.

Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO talks about the importance of open data, specifically mapping data, for effective AI.
#AIforGood

Got my ID. Now I'm looking forward to taking part in the ITU's UN Global Summit "AI for Good" 2025. It looks like there are quite a few interesting talks in the programme.

aiforgood.itu.int

#AIforGood #ITUaiSummit
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🎉 The 2025/2026 Oracle ACE Program members have just been announced! Join us in celebrating the incredible contributors, experts, and community leaders making a difference in the Oracle world.
Check out the full list and let’s congratulate the new ACEs! 👉 blogs.oracle.com/ace/post/int...

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Oracle ACE Director certificate 2025 for Niall Mc Phillips

Continuing my Oracle ACE journey as an Oracle ACE Director this year. Many thanks to the community, to #Oracle and, of course, to the great Oracle ACE team @oracleace.bsky.social

@niallmcp.bsky.social at #AOUG25 highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of different search techniques we can use when building PL/SQL, APEX, and other Oracle applications

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Oracle ACE Director @mirelarooug.bsky.social is showing us how to quickly build data models and generate test data at #AOUG25

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After a great 1st day at #AOUG25 in Vienna, I got to eat a true Austrian schnitzel - delicious!

I’ll be speaking tomorrow (Tuesday) about 4 different search techniques in #Oracle #23ai - 1 old one and 3 new ones, using #orclapex to demo each one.

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@brendan-tierney.bsky.social building a AI agent on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to answer questions about Shakespeare

This could help students prepare for exam on Shakespeare by giving example answers to past questions

#AOUG25

I would have voted for 2 options, as it's pretty much 60% SSO and 40% Custom split for most of the applications that I work on. Custom is declining in my experience, and I expect it to decline further.

@niallmcp.bsky.social ready for AI vector search #apexconn26 with #orclapex

dbLinter announced in @united-codes.com vendor session by @dgielis.com and demonstrated by @hartenfeller.dev at #apexconn25. VS Code extension is available as preview in the market place marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa.... More is coming soon. 😎

@lainejari.bsky.social tells us how to run 23ai, ords, ollama and open web ui all at once on a laptop.

#apexconn25

@robbie.databee.org is telling us all about Advanced API development with ORDS at #APEXconn25.

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Dynamic stats for PL/SQL functions (23.8) Improve row estimates for PL/SQL functions in SQL with dynamic stats By default row estimates for pipelined table functions are poor

Dynamic stats for PL/SQL functions (23.8) Improve row estimates for PL/SQL functions in SQL with dynamic stats With dynamic PL/SQL stats in 23.8, get accurate row estimates for pipelined functions

Oracle Database Free 23.8 is now available

Get it at

www.oracle.com/database/fre...

This has a neat tweak if you're getting poor row estimates for PL/SQL in SQL:

Enhanced dynamic stats for PL/SQL in FROM & WHERE

This can be particularly useful for estimating pipelined table functions

Congratulations, Brendan!

Somewhere outside of Bern - about halfway along on my road journey to what’s shaping up to be a great Oracle APEX event at #APEXconn25

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Smashing a database on my PC Colleague Martin Berger posted this recentlyand it got me thinking: If we take out the network (by running a program locally on the database server) how many requests per second can a modern but af…

If smoke isn't coming out of your machine, you aren't really working :-)
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📣 #apexconn25 – T minus 13... ⏳ Am 13. Mai öffnet die 11. APEX connect ihre Türen im Europa-Park in Rust. Der 2. Konferenztag endet mit einer großen Dinner- & DJ-Party 🍽️ 🔊 🪩 💃 🎵 🍻 scomp.ly/Q1zLZAG

Infos 🔗 apex.doag.org
Tickets 🔗 scomp.ly/Anlevna
Hotels 🔗 scomp.ly/OWwJkd5

#orclapex #lowcode #plsql