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Yes you can throw some shade Oracle’s way for taking so long, but we now finally have a Boolean datatype arriving in the latest version of the database.

SQL> create table person ( 2 pid int, 3 married boolean); Table created. SQL> insert into person values (1,true); 1 row created. SQL> insert into person values (2,false); 1 row created. ...


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A quick summary of the things you seemed to enjoy most last year

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The AI World download

We’ve all been there… You head over to the Session Catalog for AI World and you want to download the f...


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You might be wondering how a friend’s boat has any relation to the topic of software quality, but bear with me – we’ll get there in a second.

But first, if you’ve got a Twitter account, you’ve probably had the unfortunate experience over the past few days of people using Grok to turn people’s pictures into more explicit versions. And just when you think that nothing co...


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2025 … wrapped

Just a brief selection of memories from conferences and events throughout 2025. It’s been wonderfully rewarding to share my knowledge on the Oracle database to so many people this year.

2026 will bring new things with Oracle Database, which will continue to amaze!


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One of the cool features in Oracle AI Database 26ai is the ability for sessions to have different levels of priority for their transaction locks. I’ve covered how the feature works in the video below

In a nutshell, a session can nominate whether their locking priority is LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH. When a session tries to obtain a lock on a row in a table, then if that row i...


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