As a public house, it was pretty decent, not like the steakhouse before that #sym42 #Birmingham #UKOUG2025

Great news, Telia Estonia customers travelling in the UK! For a paltry 12€ per day, you will get a whopping 500MB of the networking stuff. What not to like!

Arlanda terminal 2, we meet again. This time it was traces of explosives on me, so I had a little chat with the security lady. Lucky for me, the bomb wasn't found

Want to learn a little bit about character set encodings? Session is aimed at newbies, but I think everyone will learn things. Still not convinced? There will be funny AI generated pictures of doggies! Yay! See you at #ukougdiscover25

Absolutely this by @connormcd.bsky.social . Before I started going to user groups I thought I was good at Oracle stuff. But I got so much better when I started going - not just by learning more but also having all these smart friends I could now ask about loads of stuff!

Huh, has Oracle stopped publishing commits to the MySQL github repo? github.com/mysql/mysql-... github.com/mysql/mysql-...

Coming in Oracle AI Database #SQL assertions These enable you to create cross row, cross table constraints with SQL standard syntax CREATE ASSERTION … CHECK ( [ NOT ] EXISTS ( <query> ) ) @toonkoppelaars.bsky.social explains at #DOAG2025

I’m so happy to be here at #DOAG2025 assisting @kibeha.dk and getting a chance to meet other members of the PlushDB family 😁

Well. Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT

Just realised:if I ever did a talk abt Oracle licensing, Kreator's "Dance with Satan" t-shirt would be a great prop. #schnapsidee

A small impression of our Database Cloud and Developer Day yesterday.. We had a wonderfull time, we hope you did too! #dcd25 #octemea25 #nloug

Are you set for the Database Cloud and Developer Day this week? Grab the app on your phone and be sure to schedule your favorite presentations now! App link: apps.nloug.nl/ords/r/nloug.... Discover more details here: nloug.nl/en/events/au.... #DatabaseEvent #CloudTech

The deadly couch cobra—coiled and alert in its natural habitat.

Oh, Runna! While I'm recovering from a bonked marathon, it's not that bad that I have to walk in the middle of the short tempo session.

IT developer that opens in the new window? Is there an explosion involved?

That feeling when you have nothing to submit to the conference and then get the good idea two days after the deadline.

I WENT TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. THE DOCTORS FOUND NOTHING.

After the marathon this tastes heavenly

Hello Arlanda airport terminal 2, my old friend. Here even the fast track has a massive queue. But it is fine, my flight got delayed anyway

Cursor AI suggested index key compression for CUSTOMER_ID, and yes, we have quite a few more than 6 customers. And now managers are curious why we're cross-checking the suggestions developer got from our AI overlord instead of fixing the issue in prod.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Blockchain and smart contacts find another great use case:

Dark Traquillity @ Fållan, this was great!

Bloodstain @ Fållan

Joel Kallman Day 2025 : It’s a Wrap! (#JoelKallmanDay) oracle-base.com/blog/2025/10... @oracleace @OracleAPEX #orclapex @OracleDatabase

Oracle AI Database 26ai Released oracle-base.com/blog/2025/10...

#joelkallmanday We tend to forget that troubleshooting is mainly just about Clear and Calm thinking.. pdvfirstblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/simp...

New blogpost enesi.no/2025/10/uuid... #JoelKallmanDay #oracle

Is SYSDATE Deterministic? #JoelKallmanDay No, SYSDATE is not deterministic. However, it behaves very similarly to a deterministic function within an Oracle Database SQL statement. www.salvis.com/blog/2025/10...

I thought I won't post anything for #JoelKallmanDay, but then I got sudden inspiration from the day job. TL;DR: if your Python code isn't thread safe, then even GIL might not save it. priitp.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t...

I just realized how much of the Python code works only because of GIL. I've been doing Go lately, and suddenly had to look at what my co-workers came up, and it was like wow! This two line method has both the data race and the race condition, how does it even work?!

“Jimzfxxy! Do you have to mess with the organisms on every planet we visit?”

Did you already sign up for the autumn event of the Nederlandse Oracle User Group (nlOUG)? It is going to be a great day with an awesome - international - speaker line-up! 🌍 Don't miss out—spots are filling up fast! Head over to nloug.nl/events/najaa... and secure your place today.

This is your chance to shape what products we build, how we build them, and what features they should have ... Take the Oracle DB Developer Survey 2025 and share your insights: customersurveys.oracle.com/ords/surveys...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

So funny, but with InFlames things have developed to the point that their first lineup created their own band. Results are good, The Halo Effect indeed sounds like early In Flames The screenshot is from Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hal...

The woods were dark and foreboding, and Alice sensed that sinister eyes were watching her every step. Worst of all, she knew that Nature abhorred a vacuum.

Our AI overlord makes me feel like a little Einstein. Wonder what else could I spot in the AI generated code slop? On the other hand, chatting with the codebase and fixing this burned 0.4% of my monthly premium request allowance.

Only a couple of weeks to go until the #HrOUG2025 conference in Rovinj, Croatia. I am so looking forward to celebrating the 30th anniversary of this wonderful conference; full of fun and full of learning in an amazing location.

Joel Kallman Day 2025 : Announcement oracle-base.com/blog/2025/09... #JoelKallmanDay @oracleace @OracleAPEX #orclapex @OracleDatabase

“I just don’t like it, Al. … Whenever Billy goes outside, the new neighbors seem compelled to watch every little thing he does.”

Dutch late night TV has its take

Cow poetry

“Oh, don’t be silly! No thanks needed. Just take the brain—but tell that doctor you work for not to be such a stranger.”

I've seen people claiming that Oracle has figured out The Cloud. Indeed it has: recent rally is based on imaginary future cash flows that Safra is trying to achieve w/o capex spend. You can't get more cloud-y than that. Gift link: on.ft.com/4njcAbM

yeah im into BBW

Wow…can’t believe it took me 10 years to get to @pougorg.bsky.social but it delivered in every possible way. So great to see old friends and I haven’t learned that much at a conference in a very long time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️