What's December without a good APEX World Promotion? Get 15% off available tickets for APEX World 2025 - 15th edition now. Get yours at nloug.nl/en/events/ap... #apexworld2025 #AW25 #orclAPEX

Patch Set Bundle 7 for Oracle APEX 24.1 was released on the 9th December. 😀 www.oracle.com/tools/downlo... @OracleAPEX #orclapex

SYM42 are currently watching a SYM42-internal webinar by @franckpachot.bsky.social on PostgreSQL & Yugabyte. It would be interesting to know if our followers would like this (and similar) webinars to be held publicly also. Of course, some things said privately to the group would be missing 😁

He does bang on about this...

Mike Hitchwa just demoed the new version 2 of #oracle LiveSQL which is really cool Chrck it out at livesql.oracle.com

It’s about a month since the tectonic shift of Oracle community activity from Twitter to Bluesky occurred. In just a month SYM42 account followers have gone from 25-ish to 215, Twitter followers have dropped from about 230 to 210. To us it feels so much busier & friendlier on Bluesky too. Thoughts?

Hope you can join us tomorrow to help decide how to build our database schema

It was really good to see Oren again (and everyone else). So many bad things going on in the world, especially at the moment, so coming together to share friendship and knowledge is more important than ever.

Miranda looking forward to NULL - and receiving lots of cute dog pictures and interesting examples by @jolliffe.bsky.social #SYM42 #ukougdiscover24

The first session I attended at #ukougdiscover24 was a session of @nakdimon.bsky.social - and the last one is from @nakdimon.bsky.social again 😊

Cool New Features in Oracle 23ai (that I will definitely use) with @oraclebase.bsky.social #ukougdiscover24

Our feed on Twitter is very quiet now, even with #UKOUG2024 underway. Here in the sky it's maybe 8-10 times busier. Further, most of what's on there is duplicated here. Add in the friendlier feel, huge reduction in bots & accounts simply following hundred or thousands of random people, much better.

Deep diving with @danischnider.bsky.social at #ukougdiscover24

A few #SYM42 people & friends enjoying a beer after a day of learning & sharing at #UKOUG2034 @sym42.bsky.social

on my way to speak at the #ukoug #oracle conference in Birmingham today, just got on the train in York #oracleace #sym_42

Oracle Database at Google Cloud with @acolvin.bsky.social #ukougdiscover24

SYM42 gang at #UKOUG2024 with new member Nigel Bayliss (is he on BS yet?). Photo taken by other new member @go-faster.co.uk (David Kurtz)

#SYM42 spontaneous assembly @sym42.bsky.social

He's a push-over

Important for those at #UKOUG2024 today - Chris Saxon and Alastair Newson are swapping session times

And so #UKOUG2024 kicks off with the traditional "Tech Sunday". Some of us remember when it was Oaktable Sunday!

And good response in the thread by Niels on how helping the organisers helps get a better conferences (and maybe your paper accepted!)

Interesting suggestion for submitting papers where more than one language is used

Hang on - everyone there is #SYM42!!!

This is the last day to submit for MulticloudWorld 2025. CfP ends TODAY! So head to https://www.aioug.org/call-for-papers now and submit. @aioug See all Events and CfPs on www.clocwise.org.

Presenters are coming into Birmingham for the annual UK Oracle conference. End of year tradition!

Presenters are coming into Birmingham for the annual UK Oracle conference. End of year tradition!

This is a lovely post by Oren, about how he became part of the global Oracle community and what it means to him. Our community is all the better for his presence in it.

Ask Tom has got to be worth following.

See you on Sunday 1st December (and Monday and Tuesday!) in Birmingham for the #UKOUG Conference! It's more than just a few talks. The ability to meet, network, learn, chat to experts, discover partners and grow ourselves and our businesses is invaluable. See you there! ukoug.org/page/UKOUGCo...

Less than a week to #UKOUGDiscover24 in Birmingham (Sunday-Tuesday). I will be speaking about various topics, from #OracleAnalytics to SQL/PGQ in 23ai to RAG and GenAI. Still time to join the conference: ukoug.org/general/cust...

What's Shakespeare's take on the Oracle RDBMS. (You heard it here first): jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/w...

On the way home from #DOAG2024 (and a short visit to friends near Munich). Once more, the conference was an amazing event with good presentations, interesting discussions and many chats with colleagues, customers, community members and friends.

It's all about Community - @martinklierdba.bsky.social at #DOAG2024

Oren is always a brilliant speaker and a lovely person to chat to. Frankly, we are amazed he has never done EBR at UKOUG, but he does talk about a lot of other things.

Get your APEX papers polished and submitted!

A colleague sent this 😇

Woohoo! One or two missed the photocall it seems (Connor, Chris S?) but wonderful to see you all together!

I know we reposted this one already, but it's very interesting to read the thread and see what @loiclefevre.bsky.social says about improved JSON and CLOB processing in 23ai.

After running a day, comparing execution times of scheduler jobs before and after, almost all have halved or quartered execution time. The "baseline" (outside of peaks) average active sessions has dropped from roughly 1 to roughly 0.33. Peaks are much reduced. Why haven't we done this before? 😁

Thank you DOAGeV for the amazing #DOAG2024 event (and for accepting my talks). And thank you ACE Program for this amazing community and friends built around #Oracle. To all my friends that I saw here, see you soon! #acesinaction #sym42 @sym42.bsky.social

Checking SYM42 feeds: Twitter - 2 notifications, 2 mins Bluesky - 12 notifications, 12 mins and far more interesting I expect Bluesky to calm down as we get used "seeing each other" again (plus DOAG finishing) but heck, the change is so welcome It's great to have a re-invigorated online community

#DOAG2024 Unconference: Bluesky für Aus-, Um- und Einsteiger! 14:00 Uhr, Pressecenter (Ebene 1, neben der Mercator-Lounge ☕️)

Need-to-know stuff from Mike

RoCE has enabled a much faster turn around direct memory writes from RDBMS to the cell server than we could do with Infiniband. The person to ask is Jia Shi.

My first session today at #DOAG2024. 8am is not my favourite time for a presentation 😉

I have a new answer for what's the easiest way to get started with Oracle or SQL, using the latest technology.. Oracle LiveSQL www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2024...

Being part of communities, be it the one mentioned below, your regional user group, online forums, a bunch of you who meet for a drink and a chat - they make a huge difference to your knowledge, contacts, career, and (most importantly) your fun

This is just the starter course at the #OracleACE dinner for #DOAG2024 in Nuremberg. Good Bavarian food! @sym42.bsky.social