I thought of a requirement to simply reverse the items in a JSON array, and then discovered that REVERSE was added to JSON_TRANSFORM (in 26ai I think). JSON is improving continuosly and more rapidly than any tech I know of in the Oracle database. 👏👏👏

Truly a very high-VALUE post!

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

Many in the US think that people are the problem, not the guns. But they’re OK with giving the problem easy access to guns… 🤦‍♂️ #GunControlNow #USA #USALogic

Sessionless transactions, or why the #smartdb refusal to allow clients to COMMIT was nonsense.

Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.

Folks, my latest post on stewashton.wordpress.com was unnecessary, the previous post called "SQL table macros 14: parameterized views" is back as my preferred solution. Sorry for any confusion...

Only 1456 days until the next presidential inauguration...

Greenland is a part of Denmark, which is a founding member of NATO. If the USA uses military force to annex Greenland, that means one NATO member attacks another. Can Denmark invoke Article 5? Ask your favorite AI...

Finding the difference between two dates or timestamps is hard, and not just for me... This time I may have a decent answer.

Happy New Year to all the blue butterflies from a newby. May we not have to wander further in the social wasteland this year 🙏🏻

The ex-X #oracle community seems to be mass migrating here. Is anyone trying to get the Threads folks to come here as well? I'm thinking of John Snyders for example...