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Posts by Neil Chandler

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#DOAG2026: Der Call for Papers für die DOAG 2026 Konferenz + Ausstellung ist eröffnet! Bis zum 8. Juni habt ihr jetzt die Gelegenheit, eure Beiträge einzureichen.➡️ scomp.ly/3jJdQBr

Konferenz: scomp.ly/xqV9Jp8

🔗Early-Bird-Tickets bis 29. September: scomp.ly/v0xlWdZ

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So the calc for number of subpools unchanged and needing 128 CPU for the full allocation, rather than topping out when you have 28.

I foresee manually reducing it for large and heavily parallel DW processing, but better for very large OLTP.

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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)

21 hours ago 4 1 1 0

31 seems ripe for extra ORA-4031’s - trade off for the concurrency I suppose. Same cpu breakdown?

But I like the reduction in granule size. 512M was always too big, but across 31 subpools would be mad 😁

(I’d love to investigate but no massive server access at the moment)

19 hours ago 1 0 1 0

So what are the raisins depicting 😬

1 week ago 0 0 0 0
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#DOAGDB26: In seiner Session "Mission Impossible? Eine komplexe Exadata-Migration sicher in die Google Cloud" zeigt Amin Farvardin diese anhand eines realen Projekts.
➡️ scomp.ly/YWL3JrA

Konferenz: datenbank.doag.org/de/home/
Tickets: scomp.ly/nZwDB5m

#Datenbank #CloudInfrastructure

1 week ago 2 3 0 0
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Don't Let AI Write For You 2026.03

Alex Woods - Don't Let AI Write For You
alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-...

2 weeks ago 4 3 0 0

But is there duck-oasis?
No? I’ll get my coat.

2 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
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Very enjoyable day in town. Culture, Food then Comedy.

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Audience at Leicester Square Thestre waiting for ABK to come onto stage.

Audience at Leicester Square Thestre waiting for ABK to come onto stage.

Saw @misterabk.bsky.social last night. Most excellent, but the true highlight was the cartoon themes.

Except Duck Tales. I never liked Duck Tales.

Don’t you open that Trapdoor!

2 weeks ago 2 0 1 0

We’re gonna need a bigger teapot

2 weeks ago 1 0 0 0

With hilarious consequences

3 weeks ago 2 0 0 0

vin-eager? I've heard that rumour.🍷

4 weeks ago 1 0 0 0

As a mate of mine just said “Imagine losing 7-2 and that not being your worst defeat of the week”

😂 😂 😂

#safc

4 weeks ago 28 3 0 1
Around the World in 80 Dogs: A Ruff Guide to the Database Character Set - Oracle Developer & Technology User Group

I'm doing a webinar next Tuesday. It's decent, but hey I'm biased. It's free to join. There will be pictures of dogs. You will likely learn something you didn't know before. There's even a tiny bit in there about the Oracle Database. #odtug @odtug.bsky.social

4 weeks ago 5 3 0 1
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Fabulous result for #SAFC - great performances all round, done the double against #NUFC this season.

Brobbey is a beast! 💪

I have no nails left

#HAWAY #NEWSUN

4 weeks ago 7 1 0 0
drawing of Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb

drawing of Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb

Happy Birthday Gary Oldman

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Oracle Database 23ai News & an Updated VirtualBox appliance Previously on @thatjeffsmith... Oracle Database 23ai News & an Updated VirtualBox appliance

Previously on @thatjeffsmith... Oracle Database 23ai News & an Updated VirtualBox appliance

1 month ago 2 1 0 0

And my hairstyle is becoming decidedly monastic these days

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Lots of strawberry hats

Lots of strawberry hats

Au contraire…

1 month ago 1 1 1 0
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My cat sleeps all day and then keeps me awake all night so this gave me a good laugh.
Credit - @dagnylill on Instagram

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How I do, and don’t, use AI on this blog

Inspired by @gunnarmorling.dev, I've added a page to my blog about how I do, and don't, use AI on my blog. tl;dr: NEVER for writing content. gross. But, for plenty else! 👉🏻 rmoff.net/ai/

1 month ago 7 3 0 0
RoOUG TechSession #57 – 26ai: SQL Assertions and more – with Connor McDonald

April 1st but it's no joke :-)
www.rooug.ro/2026/03/roou...

1 month ago 3 3 0 0
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Bind Variables – Worse than you were told Many of you probably know Martin Bach.  He’s a colleague here at Oracle although we’ve both been good mates in the Oracle community long before either of us joined Oracle.But here&…

It might be 2000 times worse than you thought
connor-mcdonald.com/2026/03/09/b...

1 month ago 6 2 1 0

You could call it "Bind Variables, mostly good except when they're not because Oracle isn't perfect and sometimes the optimizer has to guess, so you've got to do work to help it out**"

or maybe

"How many child cursors? Gosh that's slower"

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**yes, also for literals but less so

1 month ago 0 0 0 0

That's great!

Now do one where bind variables get much worse results than using literals.

1 month ago 0 0 1 0
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That was just the grimmest footy match. We were utterly terrible.

Port Vale worked really hard and deserved it. 👏

#safc #pvlsun #facup

1 month ago 3 0 0 0
Larson comic. A newspaper seller saying “well I’ve got good gnu’s and bad gnu’s”. The booth behind him is full of gnu’s.

This joke doesn’t work in the UK because we pronounce gnu incorrectly.

Larson comic. A newspaper seller saying “well I’ve got good gnu’s and bad gnu’s”. The booth behind him is full of gnu’s. This joke doesn’t work in the UK because we pronounce gnu incorrectly.

This made me realise I pronounced it the Flanders & Swann way.

I love this cartoon.

1 month ago 3 1 0 0

Best AI engine ever

1 month ago 5 0 0 0

What’s the point of VAR if it doesn’t clear up stuff obvious to everybody except the ref 🤷‍♂️

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