See you on Sunday 1st December (and Monday and Tuesday!) in Birmingham for the UK Oracle User Group 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!

Already time for the last conference of the year. On my way to #UKOUGDiscover24 #ukoug2024 by UK Oracle User Group. I will speak about various topics including #OracleAnalytics, SQL/PGQ graphs, GenAI and RAG, and some data analysis. See you in Birmingham!

Just been to see Emo Philips in a tiny theatre in Soho. 🤯 He was, sadly, the funniest comedian I’ve seen in a very long time. Sorry other comedians. #standingovation #genius #weird

I’m really flattered that someone like @chandlerdba.bsky.social is using my tools in his presentation :) 🥃🍻 #ukoug2024

😂Neil Chandler

Fantastic win for #SAFC against #Stoke in filthy conditions. 24 shots says it all. We’d have had a few more if the finishing was on form. Jobe excellent, and what a game by young Watson. Respect to the 39000 there, especially those up from the potteries.

New - or updated - event ITOUG Tech Day 2025 on clocwise.org. CfP ends on 02-FEB-2025, but dont wait and head over to sessionize.com/itoug-tech-day… now and submit! #ITOUG25

Hey Microsoft Thanks for enabling #Recall by default with no notice in Windows 11 v 24H2 disabled. dism /online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall Don't forget to disable all the AI scraping on your phone too, right kids!

If you ask me how to improve a SQL query that returns five million rows, the first question I would have is about what you plan to do with the results. Not sure you want to use more resources to accelerate scan, join, or fetch for such a use case

It’s 1970 and ELTON JOHN takes out a crumpled piece of paper and plays TINY DANCER - for the first time - in front of his lyricist BERNIE TAUPIN, along with Taupin’s wife MAXINE, who he wrote the song for.

Before the game I’d have been happy with a point. To draw 0-0 and be gutted says a lot. #burnleyfc are very good defensively - not so hot up front. And why was Isidor taking that pen at the end. Should have been Roberts or Le Fée #safc #bursun Haway The Lads!

Join us to celebrate the 10th #POUG conference anniversary! 📷 We started in (let's be honest) the basement of a small hotel near Warsaw Airport, and now we're here, with our amazing community. Book now: poug2025.konfeo.com/en/groups #POUG2025

🗣️ Speeeeech... Go inside the changing room as Luke O'Nien was presented a shirt following his 300th appearance! ❤️

If you want to see pure joy, there’s a fat middle aged man in the crowd wearing a grey top with his arms up, who you can see at 22 seconds in. Pure. Joy. 👀 ♥️🤍♥️🤍♥️

Got caught up in the limbs. The ITHICS crew with arms aloft.

Finally a good current picture of Neil Chandler in his presentation #makeit2025

Have a new Oracle blog post about an unexpected problem and a change to the defaults after applying a patch (which is standard functionality in later releases) #oracle #oracle19C #oracle23ai chandlerdba.com/2025/06/11/ora…

At #POUG2025, Neil Chandler will walk (or race) us through the trickiest memory issues – from leaks to limits, from WTFs to workarounds. Expect real-life war stories, a fair bit of swearing, and some actual fixes you can use. poug.org

New Post - change in behaviour with Oracle Statistics when truncating partitions. #oracle #performance #statistics #truncate chandlerdba.com/2025/08/08/ora…