"Oracle AI Database 26ai" new features list: docs.oracle.com/en/database/... Really it's just 23ai RU10 🤣

Great blog post why and how 23ai is now 26ai - the release numbers explained by @mikedietrichde.com : mikedietrichde.com/2025/10/14/o... @oracleace

Oracle AI Database 26ai Free available for download. www.oracle.com/database/fre... I've done my first install.

Last Friday I had the honor of taking part in the jubilee concert celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Pruszkowianka Wind Orchestra. Great band and an unforgettable evening. www.facebook.com/share/1WHted...

Looks like it's not available anymore, my SR regarding this was closed with something like "Internal bug was submitted for investigation, but hey, we got that alternate features "Look-up By Error or Error Code's First Argument" or "Search by Stack Trace" added which replace it. For real?🤦‍♂️

I just hate OEDA. You can't use it offline despite what the readme says (no, it doesn't save js libraries) and it's so damn bugged it's impossible to get what you need.

AHF 25.7 is marked as obsolete and cannot be downloaded. It's the latest available version. You can download it directly from the AHF Doc ID 2550798.1, but there are no checksums there. WTH?

Better yet, join next Tuesday's launch webinar! tanelpoder.com/posts/xtop-t...

For me just released SQLDev 25.2.2 finally started to work, I can now connect without getting some error and what's more even secure external password store (oracle wallet) connection type started to work! The only issue is when trying to connect from connections list, it expects to enter password.

#Oracle #Exadata System Software #25ai (25.2) is here! 🚀 Enjoy accelerated AI Vector Search, performance boosts, smarter #Exascale management, and enhanced security (SELinux by default). Thanks to our stellar Engineering & PM teams for making it happen! blogs.oracle.com/exadata/post/exadata252

Trying to make PDB relocation in availability max mode working (Doc ID 2771737.1) and it's a mess. PDB relocates successfully, but after opening it source CDB logs following error in alert.log: "ORA-12792: Network transfer operation aborted due to TTC error 3111".

Finally, after 8 months of waiting the #SQLcl 25.2 release fixes this issue. It took me great effort to fill the SR, deal with the clueless person handling it for several months, escalate, etc. to reach this goal. To just get back to where it was working in 24.1. Should be happy but I'm more tired.

Just spent several hours of diagnosing why java 1.8 won't start when executed from database on #Exadata 25 only to find out Oracle decided to omit /usr/java/default/lib/amd64/jli from /etc/ld.so.conf.d/dbmmgmt.conf 😠 And I think I know why...

ORA-600/ORA-7445 Troubleshooting tools on MOS are not working for me - at least since yesterday.

Where is the Standalone CVU for Oracle Database 19 on Linux x86-64 ?!? For HP-UX Itanium CVU version 19.27 April 2025 was already released in Nov-2023 🤣

You can now use AutoUpgrade as part of your server provisioning to install an Oracle home on a brand-new server.

To my request in SR from 28-MAY to check it out support responded on 16-JUN "We checked the given patch rigorously and it seems to be working good." where previously they confirmed it failed to patch using the lib I provided from it. What they did not mention is the clone was updated on 13-JUN-2025.

Just noticed the download bookshelf link on #Oracle #Database #Documentation for 19c docs.oracle.com/en/database/... - docs.oracle.com/en/database/... contains documentation as of 2023.07.03 🥶 (oracle-database_19_20230703) This really should be up to date.

Now it turns out the provided database software clone 19.27 (p37757478_1927000DBRU_Linux-x86-64.zip) is faulty as one-off patch application fails with relinking libserver19.a. 😠 Support reproduced it too. Don't use it, provision the home from base 19.3 image using AutoUpgrade for example.

So the latest Oracle RUs (19.27, 23.8, etc.) were published a week ago, but latest OEDA version patch numbers point out to the actual patches not gold images, as the latter are still not available! I created SR for this and was asked to file Gold Image SR. Seriously is this the way it should work?

Call me old-school but Michael Schenker is my favorite rock guitar player. I was lucky to hear him play songs from UFO era this Thursday at Cracow Kwadrat club. What a blast! ✅ on my bucket list.

Have you seen new AI assisted search on MOS? I can see the potential here, but... Why 21c? Why fixed 280px answer area size? (increased it in console for the screenshot so you can see it all) And who can first spot where it hmm... let it's imagination run wild and misleads us?

Oracle attempt to hide serious cybersecurity incident from customers in Oracle SaaS service doublepulsar.com/ora...

I'm following Oracle tech and still somehow did not know... 🤐 ?!?! "login.us2.oraclecloud.com server was running Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g as of February 17, 2025. Oracle has since taken this server offline after news of the alleged breach was reported. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Allan Graves has written a great overview of the intersection of #Oracle's Advanced Cluster File System #ACFS, snapshots and clones, and #Exascale volumes. Grab a hot drink and have a read! blogs.oracle.com/exadata/post...

My wife said I use "you know" too much. Guess I got to give it up... Nay. She should've know. youtube.com/shorts/3GF3l...

I don't like creating SR's, but when I do them it means I have a serious business and need competent engineer to handle the case. Unfortunately that's a rare thing and most of the time I need to put way too much effort to reach that stage...

DevOps is widely adopted yet many developers still hesitate to apply its principles to their data stores. But there's no need for that—Database CI/CD is a reality. Not convinced? Take a look at this techbrief to learn how you can integrate your db into CI/CD pipelines: www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/...

'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild' www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/a...

Today I reanimated my good old Dell 2407WFP which went out with big pop and sparks last week. Fortunately lots of info on it on net - typical issue with leaking cap. New/used PSU board is cheap and quick option to fix it as too many elements are damaged when it happens to bother with replacement...

2FA for logging into #MOS is so pathetic. Only email or sms. Email takes ages to arrive and looks like poorly written scam with bad phrasing and wrong boilerplates (corpexternalprod ?!?). Can't change to other option or at least it's not obvious how to do it. Oracle's UX at its best. 😡

I'm amazed how quickly you can have running Oracle Database 23ai Free Container - it's a matter of seconds! And how quickly I can find an issue in it - really, first thing that I've tried to do resulted in this... 🤣

Quick warning: stay away from #AliExpress. I made a mistake of trusting it again after they refused refund for lost shipment (with tracking) for 2 out of 3 items from it(!). Got money back only through credit card chargeback process. Now I found out the spot welder I bought nearly 2 years ago does

A Single Disk Replacement can cause Performance Issues on entire Exadata System (Doc ID 3059053.1)

You don't want to miss this one. Submit your session for the #POUG2025 and join us as a Speaker 😎 sessionize.com/poug-2025/

Didn't know about the new export/import features of srvctl for crs resources 👍

First Christmas gift by Oracle: new ORDS version 24.4 with interesting new features. Check it out here: www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... Thanks @thatjeffsmith.com @krisrice.io and your teams for the great job :-) #oracleREST #orclAPEX #oracle

So #Oracle #EM holistic patch is now available at a whooping size 8.6GB 😱 Download page states 2 prerequisite patches should be installed before installing HP, but they are actually included in HP. Readme however states patch 34761383 is required instead. What a mess (as usuall)...

There are some quirks in how #SQLcl interprets connection string. If you do sql /@test?tns_admin=/some/path on linux it will fail to connect as URL gets translated to jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=test?tns_admin=))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=some)(INSTANCE_NAME=path)))

Thanks to that I finally managed to automatically obtain merge patch for DBMS_STATS related issues for current RU25, if you don't have it I recommend it - patch 37293572 support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/...

Oracle AskTOM is now on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/orac...

Looks like holistic patch for #Oracle #EM continues to be challenging, after several postponement of dates for October release support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/... availability is now as following:

#oracle #mos If you're using MOS conflict checker tool (support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/...) and run into error message "[...]Failed to parse the inventory file[...]" when uploading opatch inventory just remove patch descriptions in it. Looks like it can't properly handle all characters there...

AutoUpgrade 24.8 has been released adding MS Windows patching support Our developers are amazing. And you may have felt this the past months. In September for OCW2024 we released AutoUpgrade 24.6 with the new patching ability, in October we then released 24.7 improving it significantly and fixing…

Little application I recently wrote to help myself during live demo presentations: github.com/wes-pro/runb.... It uses Zellij terminal multiplexer which is only available on Linux and MacOS (not tested on Mac though).

@mwesolowski.com showing now new features of 23ai on Exadata at Goldenore conference "Security and AI in one: discover Oracle Database 23ai"

For all of the new Oracle folks here, let's talk about feeds. The Bad Place had hashtags that let you curate your timeline. You can add hashtags here, but (for whatever reason) it doesn't seem to be a thing. Feeds are custom timelines. Instead of searching for, say, #oracle, you go to a feed. 🧵

I dedicate my first tech post to my first follower :) #SQLcl 24.3 brings new interesting feature for CI/CD - the 'project' command - which I'll definitely test, but for now I'm happy to see inclusion of 23 JDBC driver which finally aligns well with e.g. instant client 23.5 (no more version mismatch)

Hi everyone back! Glad to be here, looks much cleaner. Most likely I won't be actively using the other platform now, I'll just leave the account for any useful information posted there.

Updated the post with Prometheus data types #ORDS