New version format of Oracle 23ai: 23.4.0.24.05 docs.oracle.com/en/database/or… Interesting to see that the previously reversed digits are used now.

These are the classes every Oracle DBA/DEV should attend 💯

Shout out to my Oracle licensing friends. I read a lot slides & blogs that Refreshable PDBs are also legally available with Oracle SE2 but the Oracle Feature/Licensing app ( apex.oracle.com/database-featu… ) says otherwise. Any ideas? Is SE2 with refreshable PDBs legal? Thx 🙏

The #clowd is automated and more secure than your on-prem infrastructure, they said. Well … theguardian.com/australia-news…

Be aware that kscs_cloudprov_ut() needs an additional parameter with Oracle 23ai - otherwise you get a nice SIGSEGV.

Oracle 23ai alert.log snippet -------<8-------- Stored outlines will be desupported in the next release. -------<8--------

New blog: Oracle Hint Scopes and Join Level Cardinality Hint tanelpoder.com/posts/oracle-h…

Recruiter website nowadays It happened on two different recruiter websites for the same end customer contracting position. Who is good in guessing what jobpage.apply.opt1 to jobpage.apply.opt3 means? Damn 😂

Another year Oracle ACE Program found me worthy of the Oracle ACE Director title - this is my first blog post of this next chapter: blog.ora-600.pl/2024/06/11/how… Thank you and have fun digging into Oracle checkpoint queue internals!

New blog - Syscallargs: List All Linux System Calls With Their Arguments tanelpoder.com/posts/list-lin…

Fellow Oracle geeks Anybody already researched how to identify on which columns the eva* functions (like evaopn2() or evapre() work on? Background: Issue is a tricky ORA-1438 and got some error-stack traces when the issue occurred.

I have uploaded the video from my today's 0xtools eBPF talk here: youtu.be/_nLAdkDhaI0 Github code, slides, discussion: github.com/tanelpoder/0xt…

(e)BPF will rule the Linux world for sure 🤓 lwn.net/Articles/92240…

This is a really good news. Needed to reload a 43 TB SAP BI DB in 2023 because of ORA-600 [KKDLRON-MAX-OBJID]. Now you can recycle data_object_ids - available with Oracle 19.19 but SAP SAP on Oracle still states nothing about it in note #2137109. mikedietrichde.com/2024/07/04/reu…

eBPF FTW again - this time with Crowdstrike ... you are also running Crowdstrike on Linux ... Make sure you're running in user mode (eBPF) instead of kernel mode (kernel module) ... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=410059…

Let‘s go Jerome 🚀 Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #BTC

I will be speaking at the @ebpfsummit 2024 conference about a new way for approaching Linux system performance, with 0x.tools and eBPF! Free online event on September 11th, 2024 ebpf.io/summit-2024/ See you there!

Hey sweetie - Ghidra with XCOFF loader/support blog.silentsignal.eu/2021/04/06/add… It was a little bit messy to get it compiled and running with Ghidra on Kali 2024.3 but we can finally start digging