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  • Tip: Expanding a SQL statement
  • WITH clause gets a 26ai boost!
  • The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
  • Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
  • Keeping your tech ego in check
  • First dabblings with APEXlang
  • Vanishing objects; hello ORA-08103
  • A very robust query
  • The secret APEX performance hack
  • Signal to noise ratio – the AWR trap
  • The new release update experience
  • My APEX installer / patcher
  • The unhealthy obsession with ROLLBACK
  • Unleashing Skills onto my database
  • SQL skills just got MORE important
  • GROUP BY ALL – Is it ALL you ever need?
  • Voxxed Days Zurich
  • Thank you after 21 years
  • Bind Variables – Worse than you were told
  • Where is my TNSPING?
  • Generate INSERTs the new 26ai way
  • INSERT-VALUES – Bigger is NOT always Better!
  • SQL Macros make so many things easier
  • 26ai Quick Tip for Database Links
  • Datatype Discipline – Even more so in 26ai
  • The new Boolean … What about existing apps?
  • What grabbed your attention in 2025
  • Software quality – Grok and my friend’s boat
  • 2025 … wrapped
  • Transaction Priorities in 26ai – open season on locking
  • An AI generated SQL for Christmas
  • The Christmas database
  • Virtualbox 7.2.4 upgrade … grrr
  • Tuning SQL without any access
  • APAC conferences wrap up
  • South Africa Oracle User Group conference was a blast!
  • Turbo boost your LOBs and JSON
  • XMLTYPE on Autonomous
  • SQL trace on Autonomous
  • The AI World 2025 mega download!
  • Wrapping up Oracle AI World
  • Security predicates exposed #JoelKallmanDay
  • Soft Deletes via Partitioning
  • My Session Picks for AI World – Thursday
  • My Session Picks for AI World – Wednesday
  • My Session Picks for AI World – Tuesday
  • My Session Picks for AI World – Monday
  • The Moment for Database Documentation has come!
  • MERGE in 23ai – so much more than RETURNING
  • Low code is dead
  • Mixing and matching
  • Troubleshooting External Scheduler Jobs
  • AI World and the power of APEX
  • Quick tip for OpenAI on APEX
  • I got shamed into using AutoUpgrade
  • Transactions on LiveSQL
  • Pictorial highlights from Yatra 2025
  • First dabblings with SQLcl MCP server
  • Can you prioritise DDL locks?
  • Are the Fundamentals Too Much to Ask?
  • The junior programmer at your company might not be a human being
  • The first 10 years
  • A new optimizer constant
  • Database timezone versus OS timezone
  • Customizing the Oracle Documentation
  • In-Database SQL formatter
  • Old style export/import and Autonomous
  • AWR extract – Why did SYSAUX explode?
  • Statistics on Global Temporary Tables
  • Smashing a database on my PC
  • APPEND_VALUES redux – Why Community Matters
  • Calling out LinkedIn Clickbait
  • APEX 24 exports – PL/SQL and SQLcl
  • You can’t beat FREE STUFF !
  • Can you REALLY drop those columns?
  • UNION versus UNION ALL
  • Don’t jump on that Zoom call … at least not right away
  • Spaghetti code is Good code
  • More Features just by Patching
  • Global Temporary Tables and Dynamic Sampling
  • Vectors in Oracle Database 23ai FREE
  • International Women’s Day
  • Sequences in PL/SQL
  • The APEX data dictionary
  • Understanding REUSE STORAGE
  • Creating rows from nothing – time for something better
  • JSON_OBJECT_T and the PGA
  • More zero outage goodies
  • JDBC and the FetchSize – Part 2
  • JDBC, the FetchSize and staying up to date
  • DataPump – niche fix
  • OPatch – The “File In Use” error that wasn’t
  • The year in numbers
  • Christmas Puzzle – The Solution
  • Kris Kringle the Database – The Christmas MYSTERY
  • Kris Kringle the Database – All gather ROUND
  • Kris Kringle the Database – What a Great GROUP
  • Kris Kringle the Database! What DAY is it?
  • Kris Kringle the Database – Friday RANT
  • Kris Kringle the Database – Taking the LEAP

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