We're still looking for interesting assertions use cases Just over two weeks left for #OracleACE to get your entries in Bounty closes 15th March For full details read blogs.oracle.com/sql/assertio...

Hierarchies should be trees and not loops. Learn how SQL Assertions in Oracle AI Database 23.26.1 can help prevent cycles in hierarchical data. www.salvis.com/blog/2026/02...

SQL-Assertions... I could not resist experimenting. simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/02/draf...

The recording for this session is now avaiable www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulLy...

Java CLIs in 2026: - scaffold with PicoCLI picocli.info - style with Tamboui tamboui.dev - launch with JBang www.jbang.dev - release with JReleaser jreleaser.org

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

Finally! Very excited that GitHub is now letting us have controls over who can open PRs on repos. https://github.blog/chan...

I wrote part 2 about what I learned from eight months with Omarchy, especially after switching from macOS after 15 years. I documented which apps I use now on Linux compared to before. Maybe it helps someone here, too. www.ssp.sh/blog/linux-...

Another successful Saturday morning build... :) #Oracle #AI #Database #26ai #Free #Docker

Preventing overlapping start-end dates in history tables is a common challenge Oracle AI Database gives you two ways to do this: Guarantee consecutive ranges with foreign keys Stop overlapping ranges with assertions Find out how in my latest post blogs.oracle.com/sql/how-to-s...

Playing with OracleDB assertions. Learning new error messages. ORA-08673: Equijoin "E"."DEPARTMENT_ID"="D"."DEPARTMENT_ID" found does not meet the criteria to do a FAST validation. Good explanation on docs.oracle.com/en/error-hel...

Rules always have exceptions. In this video I show how to use the --dblinter ignore directive to suppress rule violations for different scopes. youtu.be/5vWUv-jAM14 @united-codes.com #orclAPEX #oracle #plsql #dblinter

Want to improve the quality of your Oracle #SQL and PL/SQL? @salvis.com has built the automatic rule checking suite, dbLinter This defines 187 rules you can apply to check your code Philipp has picked out 14 to always run Do you agree with his list? buff.ly/Nc5t1Qd

I've updated my local APEX development environment to Oracle AI Database 26c. @hartenfeller.dev makes it easy! Thanks!

I did a lot of thinking about the npm supply chain attacks over my break. I wrote up my thoughts, along with some proposed solutions, in my latest post: https://humanwhocodes.co...

Timely for the 🎄 Christmas break, I've put together a more detailed 🛠️ "under the hood" post about extended VARCHARs (VARCHAR2 (32k)) and their often misunderstood 🔢 storage behavior.

I see the dbLinter rules as a large buffet. You choose what you like and what is healthy. But not too much at once. In any case, some rules should be enforced in every project. Do you agree with my top 14? www.salvis.com/blog/2026/01...

Closed a long-running action item from August 2023. The “Coming Soon” page on the Grisselbav website is gone. Replaced with real content. Meet the Grisselbav team virtually at www.grisselbav.com. Happy New Year!

Would you like dbLinter to include a formatter? The more 'thumbs up' we get for the GitHub issue (github.com/Grisselbav/d...), the sooner it will happen.

Do you write and deploy SQL or PL/SQL code for the Oracle Database? Do you care about software quality? If so, you should try dbLinter. It is available in the VS Code Marketplace and the Open VSX Registry.

Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem Announced oracle-base.com/blog/2025/12...

It's coming, Oracle AI Database 26ai for on premises commodity hardware announcement blogs.oracle.com/database/ora...

APEX Connect 2026 - Call for Papers noch bis morgen!!! Gebt Euren Abstract den letzten Schliff, und dann ab damit: apex.doag.org/de/home/ Wir freuen uns drauf! 😍 #APEXconn26 #orclAPEX #SQL #PLSQL #solutions #community

Too many commits can kill you! (And everyone else) by @ora600pl.bsky.social at DOAG2025. The summary is the first screen (no slides of course).

If you love your data then you have to love this feature. Presented by @toonkoppelaars.bsky.social who joined Oracle to make that happen. #DOAG2025

Couple here connor-mcdonald.com/2016/03/23/t... asktom.oracle.com/Misc/how-to-...

Some Oracle ACE Program swag waited for me after returning from two amazing days at the ATP Finals in Turin. Useful stuff for #DOAG2025 next week! Thanks @oracleace.bsky.social!

SYSDATE in Oracle AI Database is evaluated once per Statement in #SQL Call in PL/SQL Wrap SYSDATE in a DETERMINISTIC function to trick the compiler into evaluating it once/statement But beware: this can lead to unwanted behaviour @salvis.com explores

SQL trace on Autonomous database connor-mcdonald.com/2025/10/27/s...

I felt like writing a blog post —a little write-up on why fixing failed #database deployments is challenging. Spoiler: The part about undo-scripts might feel like a rant, probably because it is. 🙃 medium.com/@jasminfluri...

Tennis before the first session on day 3 of HrOUG with team „Awesome“ and „OMG“. It was great fun. Thanks! #HrOUG25 #HrOUG2025

This is how a latch contention looks in real life. The @ora600pl.bsky.social way at #HrOUG2025

Lot if interest in deep diving into performance of views by @danischnider.bsky.social at #HrOUG2025

Having fun at the tennis court #hroug25

For #JoelKallmanDay I am sharing a free plug-in for reactive Markdown preview. It auto refreshes, supports tables, alerts, etc., and comes with three themes. #orclAPEX hartenfeller.dev/blog/apex-re...

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...

Do you use MERGE statements in your PL/SQL code? Then I recommend not using Oracle SQL Developer for VSCode version 25.3.0 or SQLcl 25.3.0. See forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/...

„The successful 5% of AI agents? They all have one thing in common: human-in-the-loop design.“

Previously on @thatjeffsmith... SQL Developer extension for VS Code 25.3: Charts & Diagrams

I've just finished writing my blog post. And you?

Subtly downgrade a band: Beagles

New blog post, my longest one ever. A full guide on how to use AI as a PL/SQL developer. - No 23ai or Python required - Advanced techniques like tools, structured output, reasoning, and file analysis - Usage demos hartenfeller.dev/blog/real-ai... #oracle #ai #orclAPEX

GraalVM 25 is here, with lots of updates for native compilation, GraalPy, GraalJS, and WebAssembly. Faster and better than ever!🐰🚀 Download: www.graalvm.org/downloads/ Release notes: www.graalvm.org/release-note...

If you are using version 0.15.0 of the dbLinter VS Code extension, please update to version 0.15.1. Thx! This update fixes a problem where the wrong configuration name was being used for anonymous users. Other users are not affected.

Transactional Outbox: Simplified with Oracle Database Event streaming is extremely popular in modern application architectures, providing high-throughput, real-time data flow in microservices architectures. However, ensuring data consistency in distributed systems is challenging — Traditional…

Learn how to run a containerised Oracle Database 23ai natively on MacOS with Apple Containers #oracle #database #23ai #containers #macOS

I guess it will be about linters and coding standards :) @salvis.com at #POUG2025 @sym42.bsky.social

Get faster PL/SQL in #SQL with alter session set sql_transpiler = on => database will convert eligible functions to SQL Read my latest post for details on What can be transpiled Transpiler vs scalar macros Functional differences Impact of function-based indexes blogs.oracle.com/sql/post/fas...

New video: leverage AI coding assistants to generate unit tests for #oracle #PLSQL. - how to structure your project - optimize AI context with a copilot-instructions.md - let the AI agent compile and test with SQL Dev #MCP server youtu.be/O9fhl1Gr0UU #orclAPEX