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Go back a few decades before XML and JSON and you could easily categorise data into (roughly) two categories:

  • small data, like names, addresses, descriptions, numbers, dates, etc
  • big data, like documents, videos, images, etc

That was pretty much “it” when it came to storing data in your database. As such, in Oracle we had VARCHAR2, DATE, NU...

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Yes it’s true. People are still using XML. I know that many of us have leapt aboard the JSON hype train, but good old XML still has its place in the IT
world. We’ve had XML in the database for decades now, and as such, we also
support it on the
Autonomous
database.

In...

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I’ve blogged before about activating SQL trace on autonomous database, but here’s a little addenda that you might appreciate.

Lets assume I’ve done the setup as described in the href="https://connor-mcdonald.com/2021/09/15/sql-trace-on-y...

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We’ve all been there… You head over to the Session Catalog for AI World and you want to download the files for all of the sessions you have been to, and all of the sessions you have missed.

Then you discover… you need to click on each session to see the file name to download…. Ugh!

So you’ll be pleased to know someone has done the hard ...

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Its been a great few days at Oracle AI World! Of course, there  is lots of buzz around AI but it was great to still see the high level of interest in the core database tech.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to my session — or dropped in at the database booth when I was there. Being from Perth, Australia a lot of my customer interactions are virtual, so...

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