Israel’s defenders argue rightly that the Middle East has no simple diplomatic solutions. But the country’s overwhelming military superiority is not a solution in itself

I've been busy in the last months! Announcing a brand new "Practical Exadata Performance" training course! I'm not aware of any other training *like this* offered in the world. 😎 Also, a *free* seminar! Exadata is an awesome platform, if used right! learn.tanelpoder.com

We couldn't have done it without her.💐

youtube.com/watch?v=mD1g... My favorites: #10 and #1. But all are spot on.

Reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance: An old blog (with Oracle-specific examples) with a whole range of reasons why. It's not only about network traffic and SQL plan execution, but client side processing and memory usage as well. tanelpoder.com/posts/reason...

IMO that's good news! Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable after crypto's latest downward turn, analyst says www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/b...

Am I the only one who cannot activate SQL History at the session level in #OracleDatabase 26ai? The "ALTER SESSION SET SQL_HISTORY_ENABLED = TRUE" command runs successfully but has no effect...

After a decade of planning, editing, delays due to my own busyness, further editing and waiting for 23c, the release of 26ai and my pre-retirement finally unblocked the situation. I have agreed with Apress to publish the third edition of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance in 2026. #TOP3

From what I see, #OracleDatabase between version 23.3 and version 23.26.1 ships with a buggy TRCSESS script. To fix it, just correctly set the variable JDK_HOME at line 54. I seems that the problem was introduced by the change "adadhich 04/12/23 - use s_jdkLocation".

This is an interesting case of censorship. The two images show the front covers of the same book. One was printed in Switzerland and the other by Amazon. I suppose Donald's ego is just too fragile.

The journey that began with Trivadis in 1999 ends today. It has been a great and memorable one. I had the chance to make so many positive experiences and meet great people inside and outside the company. But it's time for me to move on and enable pre-retirement mode.

I’m a simple man. While Oracle people are ecstatic about ASSERTION in the just released version 23.26.1 of the Oracle Database, I’m happy to see something as simple as FILTER :) 🧵

Finally.

“Venezuela needs a civilian government constrained by law, respectful of individual freedoms, accountable to voters and capable of rebuilding institutions,” Ricardo Hausmann writes in a guest essay. “Donald Trump appears not to understand this”

Trump attacca il Venezuela, rapisce il capo di stato. Non posso più stare zitto. attivissimo.me/2026/01/03/t...

In 2025 the energy balance of our PV system (10 kWp) improved thanks to better weather (+780 kW) and some adjustments of pool and EV consumption. The self-consumption of 56% is good and could be taken to 60% with further optimisation. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to acquire a V2H wallbox... WIP.

Running a giant software business used to be fun. Artificial intelligence is now turning that model on its head. Nowhere has the transition been as unsettling as at Oracle

Another observation about MOS: some "migrated" notes are available but empty. Two examples: KB850150 and KB826614. What a mess!

I just noticed that "Previous Favorites" are now available in my MOS account. That said, the list doesn't contain everything I was expecting...

I'm happy with the performance of my new ThinkPad P14s. Only thing that could be better is a lower fan noise by heavy load. But, let's face it, running 5 VMs with 30+ active Oracle Database instances isn't the most common load for a notebook ;-)

A very insightful interview published by The Changeover Podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVAV...

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?