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Interesting and undocumented changes in SGA management in Oracle 26ai:
- Up to 31 subpools in the shared pool (max seven in 19c defined by _kghdsidx_count)
- Subpools are split into thee durations (there were only two in 19c)
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It's not often that spam email is genuinely funny:
I just read that 90% of all organisations who responded to the DORA 2025 survey adopted platform engineering.
Ninety percent 🤩
That’s a pretty significant number. I’d love to hear from you how you/the team adopted platform engineering, in particular wrt Oracle database.
A bit of humor for you to brighten your day.
Adding self-signed certificates to a wallet became a one-liner in SQLcl 26.1
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Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Foto de cima de um vaso de concreto em formato de meia lua no jardim e dentro dele um gato cinza rajado dormindo de lado perfeitamente encaixado no vaso e ao lado um vasinho com florzinhas amarelas
O encaixe perfeito
You never see it coming.
You never see it coming.
We heard you: ADBC is great, but you need it on mainframes.
Introducing ADBC for COBOL. The same connectors that work with Python, Rust, and Go now work with a language originally designed for punch cards.
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Taps sign: HERE is my only use for LLMs in my fiction.
(Text in alt text. This is part of the novel, that's the joke.)
Headline in Google: Is Your VO2 Max Score Lying to You? Discover the Potential Flaw in the Math Behind the Metric.
Headline in Runner's World: An Exercise Physiologist Explains the Flawed Relationship Between VO2 Max and Bodyweight Oh, and the byline has word 'nuances' in it, this must have triggered our AI overlord
Yes, Google rewrites headlines into disgusting clickbait. Saw the horrible headline, went to check if Runner's World has really given up and no, it is Google 🤮
I mean, who ordered this ******* feature?!
Carl Sagan as a kid
Carl Sagan as a kid
As fossil fuel prices have shot up, it’s a good time to consider going electric. I’ve had an electric car for a decade and a heat pump for a year, and I’m very happy with both — simply all-around better technology than burning stuff. www.noahpinion.blog/p/maybe-you-...
This morning in Arlanda terminal 5 it took me around 4 minutes to get through security. American mind cannot comprehend this
“Ohhhhhhh. … Look at that, Schuster. … Dogs are so cute when they try to comprehend quantum mechanics.”
“Ohhhhhhh. … Look at that, Schuster. … Dogs are so cute when they try to comprehend quantum mechanics.”
Kirill Bobrov - Stop Feeding Me AI Slop
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A publisher's office. A writer and editor meet. "I wasn't entirely convinced by the portrayal of thugs, hoodlums and henchmen in your novel, Quentin." Says the editor holding the manuscript, "So I've brought in an insensitivity reader." The writer looks nervously at an enormous, muscular, tattoed, stubbly, shaven-headed, man who holds the manuscript, a tiny pen, and grins with (perhaps unintentional) menace.
A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com
![4-panel comic. (1) [Glowing black dot surrounded by clouds.] DOT: I think I did a good job with this universe. Pressure waves dance through gas clouds. They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart. (2) [Some of the clouds are clumping together.] DOT: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together. Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in. (3) [More clouds are sucked in.] DOT: It’s not stopping! The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating! I messed up. I messed up *bad*. (4) [The clump has become a shining star.] DOT: NOOOOOOOO!!! My beautiful clouds! Ruined! It’s all ruined!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiae4qcq3k4rea6dmb4vcttgnajgfurbpa34isuyr6sclzdq3gijci)
4-panel comic. (1) [Glowing black dot surrounded by clouds.] DOT: I think I did a good job with this universe. Pressure waves dance through gas clouds. They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart. (2) [Some of the clouds are clumping together.] DOT: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together. Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in. (3) [More clouds are sucked in.] DOT: It’s not stopping! The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating! I messed up. I messed up *bad*. (4) [The clump has become a shining star.] DOT: NOOOOOOOO!!! My beautiful clouds! Ruined! It’s all ruined!
Star Formation
xkcd.com/3222/
One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.
Pipelined or parallel? In Adaptive Scalable mode LGWR can assign redo writes to worker processes in different ways. More details in the post below 👇
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Edict is (possibly unintentionally) quite funny. What it sorely lacks is a valiant xiake from jianghu fighting the injustice.
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Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
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I feel sorry for my friends (still) working at Oracle.
And this. Customer feedback for some of those AI-delivered features has been extremely negative.
Killer bees are generally described as starting out as larvae delinquents.
Killer bees are generally described as starting out as
larvae delinquents.
"The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterised by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”. "
Interesting times:
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