When community turns into friendship: the traditional annual #sym42 gathering
@sym42.bsky.social

Impressive crowd on a Saturday evening. Oracle ACE Connect in São Paulo.

Oh my...
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How to win [or at least not suck] at the conference abstract submission game Just over a year ago, I put together the crudely-titled "Quick Thoughts on Not Writing a Crap Abstract" after reviewing a few dozen conference abstracts. This time around I’ve had the honour of being…

How to win [or at least not suck] at the conference abstract submission game rmoff.net/2020/01/16/h...

🎤 Don’t miss DOAG Konferenz + Ausstellung 2025 — Nov 18–21, the premier event for database technologies in the German-speaking region!

Join #OracleACE experts and industry leaders for in-depth sessions on Oracle tech, modern IT trends, open source, and more. 👉 anwenderkonferenz.doag.org/de/home/

Happy beached whale dynamite day for all who celebrate

Database Rollbacks in CI/CD: Strategies and Pitfalls Database rollbacks would be incredibly valuable and essential if we want quick fixes for failed deployments. But they are rarely feasible.

I felt like writing a blog post —a little write-up on why fixing failed #database deployments is challenging.
Spoiler: The part about undo-scripts might feel like a rant, probably because it is. 🙃

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Java devs, please instrument your code 🥺 While preparing a talk for Java developers I revisited the topic of code instrumentation. Within the database, for example when writing PL/SQL or MLE/JavaScript code, you would use DBMS_APPLICATION…

Java devs, please instrument your code 🧠
Have you ever struggled tracing SQL back to the app? Use setClientInfo(...) to add meaningful metadata to your JDBC queries. It makes tracing and perf debugging way easier.
New blog post with real code & tips:
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New blogpost enesi.no/2025/10/uuid... #JoelKallmanDay #oracle

Joel Kallman Day 2025 : Announcement

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#JoelKallmanDay

@oracleace @OracleAPEX #orclapex @OracleDatabase

Have you considered JavaScript in the database? JS supports it.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

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Cool! I will update the presentation :-)

Inline JavaScript and some further details about code delimiters I recently attended POUG 2025, perhaps the most technical conference in Europe with focus on Oracle Database. My friend Øyvind Isene presented about Multilingual Engine (MLE)/JavaScript and made a …

You can define your own inline JavaScript code delimiters in Oracle MLE — even emojis (💥).

A small but useful detail I explored after a great question from @oyvindisene.bsky.social at #POUG2025.

Blog post 👉 martincarstenbach.com/2025/09/08/i...

#oracle #MLE #javascript

Wow…can’t believe it took me 10 years to get to @pougorg.bsky.social but it delivered in every possible way. So great to see old friends and I haven’t learned that much at a conference in a very long time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And it’s over, sadly. #poug2025 ended yesterday, and it was a great 10th anniversary event very well organised by the @pougorg.bsky.social team.
Well done @luizafrompoland.bsky.social and @ora600pl.bsky.social

Looking forward to #poug2026, no idea where it will be, but I will be there.

Doing my best to treat post-conference blues. #POUG2025 was as usual fantastic. Learned a lot and met great people. Thanks to @luizafrompoland.bsky.social, @ora600pl.bsky.social and the rest of the team for a great conference.

/me needs moar coffee

@oyvindisene.bsky.social going all in for JavaScript #POUG2025 @sym42.bsky.social

@jasminfluri.bsky.social on OpenTelemetry #POUG2025 @sym42.bsky.social

They’ve got good painkillers in Poznan 😀

Join the Oracle ACEs at POUG 2025 this week in Poznań.
Knowledge, lectures, discussion and networking for two full days! Join them now ♠️ 👉
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Have a nice JavaZone! With so many Java developers around I’m fleeing the country. Coincidentally there is a nice conference in Poznan #poug2025 😉

Insulting the AI.

Pretty proud and excited to announce that #POUG2025 is sold out!😎

Thank you for your support & trust. It's gonna be super fun, just look at the agenda: poug.org/edycja/poug-...

See you next week!
POUG Team

Oracle Database Materialized Columns – a closer look My recent blog post about Oracle Database 23.7 has generated significant interest in one particular feature: materialized columns. In this post, I’ll dive deeper into what materialized columns are, how they work, and when you might want to use—or avoid—them.

Materialized Columns are new in #Oracle #Database 23.7

Let's take a closer look at them!

⚠️ Lots of code coming next! 🤓

⚠️ New feature in 23.9! ⚠️

Now you can raise the COMPATIBLE without bouncing your database!

Learn more: www.dbarj.com.br/en/2025/08/o...

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we have an official MCP Server for Oracle Database as of...today

Installing SQL Developer in IDEs Implementing the VS Code Extension API Introduction The Oracle SQL Developer team is working on bringing the essential functionality built over the last 20 years in the classic SQL Developer IDE—a JDeveloper extension running as a standalo...

Want to use Oracle SQL Developer in VSCodium, Cursor, Windsurf or Theia?

In this blog post, I explain how to do it.

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