Modern IT gives developers the freedom to choose their tech. Whether it's SQL, NoSQL or a document API modern databases offer flexibility. For instance JavaScript developers can easily use a document API in Oracle Database 23ai. Check this guide for more:

This post has been overdue: what else is new for Multilingual Engine (MLE) for Oracle Database 23.7? Fetch Type Handlers are now supported by the MLE JavaScript SQL driver. I wrote a short blog with all the details: Happy coding!

In this screenshot you can see an enormous amount of load on a lab VM nicely charted by AHF Insights:

I recently explored the details of lax and strict JSON syntax in Oracle databases, focusing on how it has evolved over the years. If you've ever wondered, "What's the difference between JSON lax and strict syntax?"—keep reading!

I wasn't sure if I could use Flashback Time Travel in Autonomous Database-Serverless, so I went ahead and checked it out. You sure can! I tried it with my own, non-privileged account and wrote up what I found:

Oracle Database 23ai 23.7 has been rolled out to Autonomous Database. Some of you might ask "what's new?" Actually, @phsalvisberg did that so here is something new and exciting in Multilingual Engine for you: introducing the Foreign Function Interface

@pobalopalous @oraclesqlcl @OracleREST Making it easy for developers 💪

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That moment when you are updating an older blog post only to find out that it references _other blog posts_ also requiring an update...

I am about to contribute to and as part of that work wrote a bit of code, combining node-express, mocha/chai and MLE/JavaScript. If you're interested in using server-side JavaScript with these, have a look at

I thought I'd run into a regression in Oracle Database 23ai's JSON_TABLE(), but it turns out not the be the case. It was a fun investigation to prove _I_ was wrong, not the database. It combines a with-clause, the values clause, and an obscure JSON-error:

Over the weekend I learned that it's possible to use Podman secrets in compose files. This is NEAT :) The post I created covering Podman secrets has been updated yesterday (for details)

I only just now saw that Oracle 23.6 Free images are now available on Good morning everyone, I hope you have a great week.

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I ran into this problem recently: newer @ansible versions may run into issues on @OracleLinux 8 and similar distros like RHEL 8 due to a dependency on Python 3.6. This is the best write-up I found:

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