As a companion to yesterday's Bounces deep dive into 1xBet's problematic presence in tennis, I chatted with Ross Higgins of @bellingcat.com about their investigations and why sports brands that *should* be prestigious keep doing deals with this dirty company. www.benrothenberg.com/p/1xbet-cont...

New: On 1xBet, the strange and shady company which has become rapidly more visible across tennis in 2025 despite *many* reasons for tours, tournaments, and federations to steer clear of its mess. Lots of odd details here, free for all to read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/1xbet-tenn...

The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan, 1996

For those who can't past the paywall, you can also find the list of books here: fiendatcourt.com/six-books-ab...

The AI age looks likely to belong not to enablers of technology like Accenture but to its originators

Today is a special day for me: it is the last working day of 2025. I will do my best to spend the rest of the year doing whatever makes me and my dearest ones happy😃

I'm looking for a working example of the LLS Clause in #OracleDatabase, but I'm unable to find it. Also the one provided in the doc is wrong (doesn't work). When no offset/length is specified, it works as expected. With offset/length, I always get a KUP-04001 error referencing an invalid file name.

In other #databs news, Salesforce is buying Informatica. I guess Salesforce is where aging data tools go to die.

They did it just right, and it deserved to be done just right. My latest from #RolandGarros for #Tennis & Beyond #Nadal #clay #farewell open.substack.com/pub/christop...

To mark publication of my new book THE WARRIOR. I took a stroll with @benrothenberg.bsky.social. We visited landmarks I focus on in the book, which goes deep on #Nadal's career & #RolandGarros. This unique post is a guided tour & audio tour. Thanks Ben! christopherclarey.substack.com/cp/164293213

Now that the conference is over, let's spend two days at the Kennedy Space Center!

#QlikConnect appreciation event took place in Disney's Animal Kingdom. I'm not a big fan of such parks, but it was fun. Avatar Flight is really impressive! Thanks to #Qlik and diamond sponsors #AWS and #Accenture.

First time I attended a conference using the silent-disco approach. E.g. on the photo, there are three "rooms" with parallel sessions. I must say it works really well. #QlikConnect

Crypto once dreamed of being above politics. But now the industry has developed a grubby relationship with the American government—and become synonymous with self-dealing econ.st/43iWAOC

#QlikConnect day 2 - general session with guest speaker Katie Ledecky

#QlikConnect day 1 - general session

On my way to #QlikConnect25 in #Orlando. I can't believe the last time I took a plane for a conference was in December 2019 for #UKOUG in Brighton.

Hey #Oracle, can you please remove from the 23 documentation references to Java classes (e.g. oracle.sql.STRUCT/OPAQUE/ARRAY/REF) that were deprecated more than one decade ago? docs.oracle.com/en/database/...

Somehow, I find it strange to see my name on a conference agenda... I can't even remember the last time it happened (except for #tvdpdays #rip). Anyway, I'm happy to talk about what we developed in the last 5 years. #ecaas #qlik #qlikconnect25

I would love to know why in #OracleDatabase only statement #2 is subject to shared-pool latch contention. If you have a clue, thank you for sharing. #1: ALTER TABLE t MOVE LOB (l) STORE AS SECUREFILE (NOCOMPRESS) PARALLEL 8 #2: ALTER TABLE t MOVE LOB (l) STORE AS SECUREFILE (COMPRESS) PARALLEL 8

One of the best Served episodes so far. bsky.app/profile/serv...

After reading about #RSA in "The Music of the Primes" by @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social, I decided to look more in detail on how #RSA actually works. The algorithm is at the same time fascinating and mind-bending!

I'm the only one thinking that the HPROF integration in #Oracle #SQLDeveloper should be improved?

Here's Twitter's descent since 2022

Served interview with Madison Keys and her coach&husband Bjorn Fratangelo is full of interesting insights. youtube.com/watch?v=fQkJ...

(Take 2) Filed under "Today I learned". Some interesting stuff about new versions of JDBC when it comes to performance connor-mcdonald.com/2025/01/17/j...

It might be just me, but when in #OracleDatabase you are hitting an ORA-22804, the available technique to workaround it is well hidden in the highlighted sentence (extracted from the the Object-Relational Developer's Guide). Why not providing an example?

Don't ask me why, but after watching that beautiful movie dozens of times, I realised only tonight that March 22 was a Monday, not a Saturday.

To celebrate Madison Keys’ stunning run to the #AusOpen  title—and a big Bounces Bounce™️—I’ve taken the paywall off this article from days ago about how Keys retooled herself into a Slam champion with a racquet switch in the off-season. Enjoy! www.benrothenberg.com/p/madison-ke...

During the WE I developed my first Android app. For this prototype, I used Java, not Kotlin. Android Studio works well. The available tutorials are also good. The main hurdle is that even for a simple app, accessing network resources requires you to deal with several threads and intercommunications.

If you’re not following the USA vs WADA drama, you should be. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

New post: Adding Loop and Row Counters to SQL Plan Execution FlameGraphs tanelpoder.com/posts/sql-pl...

In 2024, the energy balance of our PV system (10 kWp) achieved my expectations: it produced more than what the house, pool and EV consumed; the self-consumption reached 50%. Goal for 2025 is to take advantage of our EV (Skoda Enyaq) in a vehicle-to-home mode to drastically increase self-consumption.

Now isn’t this the truth! #CalvinandHobbes

IN(), EXISTS(), or JOIN ? Some examples 👇 dev.to/yugabyte/whe...

Guys, he’s kidding. We’ve already hit it. 🏓

At some conferences this year I promised to create a blog post about JAS-MIN to explain how to use this tool - I'm glad I was able to do it before the end of the year 😅 blog.ora-600.pl/2024/12/13/j... Have fun!

How close is your application server to your database? What is the Oracle Net roundtrip time? How long does it take to log on? The ociping and connping tools will tell you: github.com/oracle/rwloa... - brought to you by the Real World Performance team. Available for Linux and MS Windows.

Just replaced a failing drive in my #Synology #RS816 NAS. Despite being the first one failing since I installed them in 2018, with only 20k hours of power-on time, it didn't last as much as expected.

I've alwats found this image very helpful.

How decentralized is Bluesky's arch (for real)? What does it mean: "the organization is a future adversary"? Could Bluesky (service) live without Bluesky (company)? All the answers are in @warski.org's recent post: softwaremill.com/blueskys-dec.... Good stuff; strongly recommended.

I am not teaching 15-721 next semester. Instead we are running a special topics course on database query optimizers. Everything will be public. More on this later: 15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2025/

The call specification can be part of a PL/SQL package. Public or private. Listing 6 in this blog post www.salvis.com/blog/2024/10... shows how.

This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

If you love tennis, I advise you to listen to the Nothing Major podcast. open.spotify.com/show/699V3JS...

AWS advertises 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability for S3. I think that's per object per year. Sounds great until you realise that S3 stores 280 trillion = 2.8*10^14 objects (source: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/buil...). That suggests S3 is corrupting somebody's objects many times per year.

Steve Jobs on Consulting youtu.be/-c4CNB80SRc?... I wonder how many of you agree with that. My personal experience is that consulting for many companies improved my knowledge and skills. A lot.

ORA-600 [qer*.cvl] We added asserts that the lenb of the data did not exceed the data dictionary length and backported to 19c (19.17 I think) to avoid memory errors in hash and sort objects.

Please, #snowflake, can you provide better error messages? I don't see how something like that can help when the query has many subqueries...