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Tim Hall

@oraclebase.bsky.social

A DBA/Developer who has a website.

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Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally using LM Studio

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06.02.2026 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a little girl with blonde hair is making a funny face while sitting in a car seat . ALT: a little girl with blonde hair is making a funny face while sitting in a car seat .

Vendor Email: You haven't used the random crappy AI feature we've crammed into our product without any consideration of how it might be used, and the security implications of it for your company...

Me:

03.02.2026 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.6
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@virtualbox

30.01.2026 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem Installations

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30.01.2026 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's here.

Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem

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28.01.2026 07:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OK. No longer a 404 on the main database page.

support.oracle.com/support/?doc...

I guess that's some progress.

21.01.2026 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are they here yet? Looks like the database links from the announcement page are broken. ๐Ÿซค

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2026
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20.01.2026 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's nearly time...

Oracle Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement - January 2026
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19.01.2026 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another Linux Mint Convert

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05.01.2026 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've included some important updates. Thanks everyone for your continued feedback. This is starting to feel like a fulltime job. ๐Ÿ˜€

19.12.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is slow...

13.12.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Official response from Oracle.

MOS - Key Known Issues
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13.12.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I understand that feeling. I think a lot depends on who the customer is. ๐Ÿ˜†

11.12.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lots of user submitted issues have been added to the post, taken from comments and social media feedback. Let's hope the feedback is being seen.

11.12.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy 2nd arrival Birthday for Klaus๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›. It was 2 years ago today he turned me into his own personal slave.

10.12.2025 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's interesting. All my links to MOS notes are taken from the button that used to display on the old interface. They've obvious changed it at some point, and supported the old and the new URL, but not continued doing that moving forward.

There must be loads of these URLs out there.

09.12.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LOL. Why would it try to dark mode a photo? Surely all images should be displayed as is. There are no transparencies on that photo. I think Chrome has gone mad. ๐Ÿ˜€

09.12.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Oracle Support (MOS) Portal : What needs fixing?

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09.12.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Yep. It is not a great start. Hopefully the will see all the criticism and fix the issues.

09.12.2025 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That sort of thing happens with new releases and new point releases. I would expect it to stay close to the mainline, so in a couple of weeks it will probably be ahead.

08.12.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I doubt 19c ever will. I guess about a year after 26ai is released on-prem, if we are lucky.

08.12.2025 06:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oracle Linux 10.1 Now Generally Available

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07.12.2025 08:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.4 (Thanks Connor McDonald)

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@virtualbox

05.12.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem Announced

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04.12.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hope it's real this time!

04.12.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UKOUG Discover 2025 : Retired again...

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@UKOUG

03.12.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'll be speaking at @UKOUG in December.

ukoug.org/page/UKOUGDi...

See you there.

19.11.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes. I have a session tomorrow.

01.12.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OMG I love this feature so much, and it is in 19c...

IF [NOT] EXISTS DDL Clause in Oracle Database 23ai/26ai

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01.12.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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