Excited to announce two new speakers for the JSONSchemaConf! Loïc Lefèvre, a Sr. Product Manager at Oracle will be returning after an excellent talk last year. Ege Korkan, an IoT Architect at Siemens will be joining us with fresh insights! More speakers announced this week!

🚀 New blog post! Column-level annotations on Oracle views — a simple way to add meaningful metadata to your DB objects. Why it matters, how it works, and example syntax you can use 👇 🔗 martincarstenbach.com/2025/11/24/cre… Plus an alternative by SQL.ProductManager.Oracle.Databases thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025/1…

I've just released swingbench 2.8 (load generator for Oracle AI Database). Now with a HTML front end. Check out the blog here. dominicgiles.com/swingbench/202… 📷

🚀 Updated Article Alert! 🚀 Exciting news for all #orclAPEX developers 🧑‍💻 I've just updated my article "Do It Yourself: Updated Developer Playground for Oracle 26ai APEX 24.2 & ORDS" now including #26ai! medium.com/@sonja.meyer/d… #Developers #TechUpdate

As others have pointed out we’re mostly blogging to train LLMs, aren’t we? I see very few visitors on my site these days. On the other hand I use the blog mostly to remind myself I’ve solved a certain problem … so all in all, it’s not too bad 😂

There are typos, and there are funny typos, like: $ gut pull Feels like it sometimes but it didn’t really do it for me 🤦

Bind variables boost Oracle performance, cut hard parses, and reduce SQL injection risk. Many of you know this, but this time I did the maths showing the overhead of not sharing cursors. You can find the details here: martincarstenbach.com/2025/12/02/mor…

Oracle 26ai onprem is coming! With JSON type, JSON Duality, AI Vector, MongoDB compatible API and so much more! Please share the good news! blogs.oracle.com/database/oracl…

Finally … Oracle AI Database 26ai is going to be available on non-Oracle hardware Read more: mikedietrichde.com/2025/12/03/fin…

🎉🎉🎉 Big news today and perhaps an early Christmas present. 👉 #Oracle AI #Database #26ai is coming soon for Linux x86-64 on-premises: blogs.oracle.com/database/oracl…

Big milestone today! ‼️ We have officially opened the Oracle #ACEApprentice program! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Never was learning to be an advocate so much fun! 🧑‍🎓

🚀 Quick Oracle tip: use multiple FOR clauses in METHOD_OPT to keep stats lean while building a histogram only where it matters. Small tweak, big control. 😉 And I can never remember the correct syntax, so I wrote it down More: martincarstenbach.com/2025/12/09/mul…

GoVivace cuts costs in half migrating from MongoDB to Oracle Autonomous Database oracle.com/customers/govi…

Oracle AI Database is sponsoring the JSON Schema conference @ API Days this week. There's also a presentation on how Oracle AI database leverages and supports JSON Schema . 📅 December 9–11, 2025 📷 CNIT Forest, Paris #apidays #apidaysParisl conference.json-schema.org

Ready for my first of two talks during #ittage25: today I’m going to introduce Java developers to database tuning. Actually any developer. And it’s a pretty light into 🙃Hope to see you at 14:00!

Schema annotations in Oracle AI Database enable you to add key-value metadata on Tables Views Indexes Domains These help document your objects Martin Bach shows how to add them to view columns with ALTER VIEW ... MODIFY ( <col> ANNOTATIONS ( ... ) ) martincarstenbach.com/2025/11/24/cre…

🚀 New blog post is out 🖥️ I was recently asked if the JavaScript SQL driver used in Oracle AI Database respects Virtual Private Database (VPD) policies. Spoiler: it does. Care for the details? Read on: 🔗 martincarstenbach.com/2025/12/12/doe…

📚 New Reading List is out! This week, we got a lot for #Database geeks 🤓 sprinkled with some announcements and customer successes 🏆 and rounded up with #Linux goodies 💻 Happy reading! geraldonit.com/reading-list-d…

One of my all-time favourite papers from Stonebreaker on database decay (ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/78405…) made me write a snippet about safe database refactoring and the expand-contract method in database development. ✒️ medium.com/@jasminfluri/e…

🚀 New blog post is out 🖥️ I started a mini-series about Oracle's server-side JavaScript implementation, and its support for PL/SQL records and collections. Part II, out now, shows you how to return records from JavaScript to PL/SQL. Details here: martincarstenbach.com/2025/12/19/wha…