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Introducing the Oracle Database Documentation MCP server

Gerald Venzl / 2025-11-24

The Oracle Database is one of the most robust and feature-rich databases available. Naturally, its documentation is vast and frequently […]

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Mastering Disk Space on GitHub Actions Runners: A Deep Dive into Cleanup Strategies for x64 and arm64 Runners

Gerald Venzl / 2025-11-18

If you’ve ever hit that dreaded No space left on device error mid-build in your GitHub Actions workflow, you’re not

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What’s new for Developers in Oracle AI Database 23.26.0

Gerald Venzl / 2025-11-11

For more information on what’s new in Oracle Database 23.9, see: What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.9 Oracle

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Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 Free multi-platform images now available on gvenzl/oracle-free

Gerald Venzl / 2025-11-03

Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.8 images have now gone

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How to Unplug an Oracle Database PDB into a .pdb File and Replug into Another Container Database

Gerald Venzl / 2025-09-09

Oracle’s Multitenant architecture allows you to unplug a Pluggable Database (PDB) from one Container Database (CDB) and plug it into

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Non-Positional INSERT statement – the insider story

Gerald Venzl / 2025-08-26

Oracle Database 23.9 implements the non-positional INSERT statement. In my social media posts, I called out that Oracle Database is

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Oracle Database Materialized Columns – a closer look

Gerald Venzl / 2025-08-19

My recent blog post about Oracle Database 23.7 has generated significant interest in one particular feature: materialized columns. In this

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What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.9

Gerald Venzl / 2025-08-05

For more information on what’s new in Oracle Database 23.8, see: What’s new for Developers in 23.8 Oracle Database 23.9

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Oracle Database 23.9 Free multi-platform images now available on gvenzl/oracle-free

Gerald Venzl / 2025-08-02

Oracle Database 23.9 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.7 images have now gone into Unsupported.