Hmmm.... could Oracle Support's "new and improved" web site be any more unusable, buggy, oversimplified, and useless?

Amateur tip: don't plug your wired mouse connector into the RJ45 port. 🤔 Even though it fits horizontally you will get neither a working mouse nor network connectivity.

Squeezing VECTOR columns on Oracle AI Database 26ai? It happens. exadatadba.blog/2026/01/03/a...

Well, I had to finally ask one of the LLM models that the Oracle AI Database 26ai uses in it's training courses. 🤔 #Oracle #26ai

For some reason, I thought of @sqlhandle.bsky.social when I saw this. modernfuel.com/products/the...

Are #OracleAIDatabase #26ai autonomous databases not yet caught up with the new version numbering? (i.e., 23.26.0)? I just created a new 26ai autonomous database, but it looks like the version is an October 2025 RU update to 23.10.0.25.10 instead?

I was behind this city bus over the weekend, and I suspect this marketing campaign is going to backfire.

INCEPTION

Yeah, blowout sales always sounds like something painful after eating at Taco Bell the day before. I'm good with stores that have "fairly low prices". #TheOnion theonion.com/mattress-sto...

Aliases, relatives, and distances: oh my! exadatadba.blog/2025/06/26/a...

Finally dipping my big toe into the intricacies of vector processing in Oracle Database 23ai with ChatGPT's help. #OracleDatabase #23ai exadatadba.blog/2025/06/23/v...

Currently hanging out in 6-dimensional space. I guess I'm about 114.99 dimension-units from home. #OracleDatabase #23ai

. . . Use code. No token tumbling. I know you need tokens to think. (one of my LLM prompts today)

Things were going great today until cell storage offloading broke on #Oracle #Exadata again. 😡 I HATE when that happens.

A1 is getting so powerful these days.

I am attributing much of my success using #OracleDatabase this week to "Vibe Querying".

I'll never tire of taking an #Oracle database query that runs for hours and never finishes, making a minor tweak to the query structure, then seeing it run in a few seconds on #Exadata.

#twit @twit.tv #SecurityNow How I watch Twit shows! On the way to work or back home. Of course I don't take my eyes off the road, execept when Steve shows the picture of the week. 📷

I'm not giving up hope that Rawlings will show up in @theonion.com again. theonion.com/as-of-this-b... I literally LOL at least once for every @theonion.com email newsletter I get, such as this instant classic: 🦴 theonion.com/archaeologic... And buy this book ! a.co/d/5uWipNz

(realizing this after 50 years while heating something up in the microwave): OF COURSE it's not "bad luck" that an accidentally dropped buttered slice of toast falls butter side down most of the time. DUH center of gravity and density.

Apparently a lot of people like "smooth jazz". Is there another group of jazz enthusiasts who like "rough jazz"? 🤔

Yes, some day Rawlings will come out of hiding. Or break out of his writer's block! @theonion.com @onion20.substack.com theonion.com?s=rawlings&s...

RAWLINGS! RAWLINGS! RAWLINGS! We want RAWLINGS! @theonion.com

Deepseek-r1 14b actually runs on my Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB. A bit slow, but I asked it two questions about Lollapalooza. Its "thought process" is rather odd, it's painfully slow on a Raspberry Pi, but it got the answer to both questions right. Eventually!

Well, this @theonion.com story is hilarious, theonion.com/when-we-invi... but I suspect he's secretly the son of Dept. Head Rawlings, theonion.com/we-have-new-... who apparently is still in hiding.

@theonion.com Not sure how I've survived without my updates from GT for over 2 decades. -- Dept. Head Rawlings

Really, only Rawlings can save us now. Please come out of hiding! theonion.com/as-of-this-b...

Free CoPilot with Office 365! Oh, but there's a catch. I have to use OneDrive. Fucking Microsoft.

Comparing free versions of #OracleDatabase #23ai in a local VM and #OracleCloud with some vector processing queries. exadatadba.blog/2025/01/01/w...

Isn't EVERY shift at the cemetery a graveyard shift? 🤔

My laptop got a workout today with the 43 GB llama 3.3 model.

But I'm glad the Oracle 23ai client supports error numbers up to 65535. #OracleDatabase #23ai

I guess AI will take over the world soon. Today, a local version of the llama 3.2 model on my Raspberry Pi told me I should eat 10 POUNDS OF CANDY BARS PER DAY.

I really do think it's about time that @theonion.com have Dept. Head Rawlings write a guest editorial. It has been a while. theonion.com/the-man-we-k...

With the restart of The Onion print newspaper, I know it's time for Dept. Head Rawlings to start writing top secret/not secret editorials again. #TheOnion theonion.com/as-of-this-b...

Wow, I'm going to have to spend some time on one of these superclusters, just wait to see what kinds of AI cat pictures I can generate. Hell, they might even be in 3D. Wait, I think I'll be able to churn out a new Garfield movie every. Damn. Day. #Oracle #SuperCluster #AI #OCI

Apparently, Windows Update just CAN'T WAIT to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11. While at the same time telling me that I better check first. But is still going ahead with Windows 11 version 23H2. What could possibly go wrong.

Thank you Claude for informing me that nmtui exists.

One of the ways in which I entertain myself. Still wondering why IPv5 never took off either.

Jumbo Shrimp.

Fun Oracle Database 19c error message fact: there are 7 ORA-xxxxx messages that say “Don’t do that”, 4 of them w/o an exclamation point, 3 of them do. ORA-30658: attempt was made to create a temporary table with EXTERNAL organization Cause: . . . This is not supported. Action: Don’t do that!

23ai (23.6) is available just about everywhere, incl Exadata anywhere, Autonomous, Base Database Linux in OCI. But NOT on-premises Linux. CY2025? REALLY? This wouldn't be Oracle trying to squeeze every dime out of their customers by pushing them to their cloud, would it? I mean, more than usual.