Who is qualified to judge English speaking ability? Teachers (the experts) or those involved in real-world communication (non-teachers)? Help fill this research gap: forms.gle/Nzb4kUrtBtskmt…

Did you know that you can suppress the execution of statements with plsql_declarations? - Do you use views or VPD for security purposes? Then you probably need to do just that to protect your data. salvis.com/blog/2022/10/3…

Let me point out that for many existing applications "easy" is a huge underestimation. I.e. it can be complex and costly. In many cases it's far easier and cheaper to optimise the existing infrastructure/application.

The Kingston Technology #DataTravelerMax delivers excellent performance! PS: in the attached image the write performance is lower than the "advertised" 900MB/s because of #BitLocker. Anyway, good enough for storing few virtual machines used for test purposes.

Thank you, Oracle ACE Program!

Dear Barnes & Noble, I didn't order this magnificent book from Amazon because I already experienced their awful packaging practices. This morning, I received what you see in the pictures and, well, you are as insane and irresponsible as them. So long and thanks for all the fish.

First blog post in my new series about #StarSchema design in Oracle AI Database danischnider.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/sta…

This drives me crazy. I understand people liking PostgreSQL, but from there assuming that any behavior different from PostgreSQL is "alarming" is just insane. 🧵👇

What I find alarming, is that people make assumptions about how the technology should work, without reading the doc, or doing tests? If your app fails on such a behavior, it's 100% your fault as a developer. RTFM, an test.

Franck Pachot YugabyteDB My point is, people should understand how the technology works, and autonomously find pros/cons for a specific use case using that knowledge. Feeding people with comparisons of very different technologies using 5 items in a list does not serve any purpose. 🤷

On this day 23 years ago, I started working for @Trivadis. One hour ago, I (digitally) signed a new employment contract. The strange thing is that the new company I will work for starting in 2023 is… @Trivadis. Hence, the amazing journey that began in 1999 continues.

I noticed some of you felt not comfortable to ask me via DM for a coupon. :) Here's a link that contains a coupon to watch the "Git for Beginners" course for free: udemy.com/course/git-for… #git #github #learn #softwaredevelopment #programming #coding #sourcecontrol

Even though Svetlana Prokopyeva’s final address to the court is more than two years old, I "discovered" it only today. But given that freedom of speech is under attack in so many places in the world, the statement is still relevant. Take 5 min and read it! rightsinrussia.org/prokopyeva-2/

The bug was fixed and patch 34940767 is available for 19c. I successfully tested the one for 19.18. x.com/ChrisAntognini…

New release of #PLSQL & #SQL formatter settings for SQLDev 23.1.0, SQLcl 23.1.0 and as a standalone executable JAR. Due to changes in the parser for #OracleDatabase 23c, the settings are not compatible with older versions of SQLDev and SQLcl. github.com/Trivadis/plsql…

Another nice surprise in Oracle AI Database #23c: SQL Performance Tips in Execution Plans I wasn't aware of this enhancement, but I think it can be useful to avoid typical SQL mistakes. danischnider.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/sql…

I'm #retired. And I've not so much as logged into Oracle 23c. But, ohhh, what the heck! I nice, little 23c improvement for Materialized Views I stumbled across. ANSI joins are now supported in MVs! mwidlake.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/a-l…

Everyone loves PostgreSQL these days. But there is a part of Postgres' architecture from the 1980s that causes many performance + storage issues for people. So Bohan Zhang and I wrote a new OtterTune blog article about why it is and why it sucks: ottertune.com/blog/the-part-…

In the last couple of years, I have kept a very low profile here. Let's see what the future holds...

One week ago I wrote about my move to #Bluesky. From the 90 accounts I follow here, 40 are on #Bluesky. From the remaining 50, only a dozen of them are still active. The others didn't write any post for months if not years. Hence, I'll stop using X. x.com/ChrisAntognini…