π° Idle Chatter – David Fitzjarrell shows how DBAs can use user profiles to limit the number of idle sessions consuming server resources
π° π€ JAS-MIN and AI – Kamil Stawiarski demonstrates JAS-MIN, an AI-powered performance analysis tool that parses Oracle AWR and STATSPACK reports
π° Oracle23ai – a SQL-Macro for Epoch – The Better version – Piet de Visser digs into SQL Macros, their behavior, and performance benefits with an interesting use case
π LiveSQL supports MLE/JavaScript – Martin Bach tells us that LiveSQL.oracle.com now also supports JavaScript user-defined functions and stored procedures
π° Oracle AWR Scripts Decoded .. No More Guessing! – Prashant Dixit puts meaning to the many AWR script file names
π Materialized Virtual Columns (Expression Columns) in Oracle Database 23ai – Oracle Base summarizes the use of materialized columns
π° ASM: How much time the rebalance will continue? – Exadata DBA shows you how to find the estimated ASM rebalancing time
π° Sourcing environment variables from .env in compose – Martin Bach details how to spin up an Oracle Database environment securely with Docker|Podman compose
π° The Security of AUDSYS and AUDSYS.AUD$UNIFIED – Pete Finnigan demonstrates the security of Oracle Database audit records
π€ Oracle Supports White Houseβs Vision for Healthcare Data Interoperability – Oracle pledged support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicesβ Digital Health Ecosystem and Interoperability Framework
π° Behind the Scenes: Creating OCI Service Platform β The Unified API Conductor – Bala Kambala shares some “behind the scenes” on how OCI uses a Service Platform architecture to navigate user requests in an ever-growing cloud platform
π° π€ Using Claude to βfixβ my table comments via our MCP Server – Jeff Smith uses AI (Claude Sonnet 4) to help him fix his table comments
π GROUP BY ALL in Oracle Database 23ai – Oracle Base shows the new 23.9 GROUP BY ALL
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π° Troubleshooting errors in ORDS container image entrypoint – Join Martin Bach on a troubleshooting exercise with his ORDS container image setup