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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · 11d

Are #OracleAIDatabase #26ai autonomous databases not yet caught up with the new version numbering? (i.e., 23.26.0)? I just created a new 26ai autonomous database, but it looks like the version is an October 2025 RU update to 23.10.0.25.10 instead?

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · 11d

OK, this is supposed to include Autonomous? I just created an "always free" 26ai database; but the version shows as 23.10.x.x.x instead of 23.26.0? Thanks.

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Sep 27

Is this some BlueSky or AI automation that reposts? Reposting about an old version of SD doesn't seem that helpful.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Sep 1

I was behind this city bus over the weekend, and I suspect this marketing campaign is going to backfire.

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Aug 15

INCEPTION

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Aug 9

I remember seeing Weird Al in his early years -- touring with Doctor Demento, his mentor, at an Iowa City dive bar in the early 80s.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Aug 8

Yeah, blowout sales always sounds like something painful after eating at Taco Bell the day before. I'm good with stores that have "fairly low prices". #TheOnion
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Mattress Store Experiments With Non-Blowout Sale

RICHMOND, VA—In a radical departure from its established tradition of total liquidation extravaganzas, Northside Mattress Warehouse on 112 Chamberlayne Rd. will use this coming weekend to test a sales...

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Jun 26

Aliases, relatives, and distances: oh my!
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A Vector Function by Any Other Name…

In my ongoing review of Oracle Database 23ai’s vector functions, there was some confusion about which distance functions are equivalent, what the aliases are for a few of the specific vector …

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Jun 23

Finally dipping my big toe into the intricacies of vector processing in Oracle Database 23ai with ChatGPT's help.
#OracleDatabase #23ai
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Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Vectors from Oracle Database 23ai

One of the key features of Oracle Database 23ai is creating multi-dimensional vectors and storing them alongside relational data in your tables. As I was investigating how vector datatypes were sto…

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Jun 22

Currently hanging out in 6-dimensional space. I guess I'm about 114.99 dimension-units from home. #OracleDatabase #23ai

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · May 4

I did this with 23.7 in the pre-built VirtualBox appliance:

alter system set inmemory_force=base_level scope=spfile;
alter system set inmemory_size=256m scope=spfile;

Of course there is only so much memory to work with, but I see this at the PDB level:

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Apr 25

. . .
Use code. No token tumbling. I know you need tokens to think.
(one of my LLM prompts today)

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Apr 24

I see that the OP provided the good and bad plans -- is there any other further answer to their question about plan stability?

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Apr 23

Things were going great today until cell storage offloading broke on #Oracle #Exadata again. 😡 I HATE when that happens.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Apr 16

A1 is getting so powerful these days.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Apr 12

I am attributing much of my success using #OracleDatabase this week to "Vibe Querying".

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Apr 11

I'll never tire of taking an #Oracle database query that runs for hours and never finishes, making a minor tweak to the query structure, then seeing it run in a few seconds on #Exadata.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Mar 29

#twit @twit.tv #SecurityNow How I watch Twit shows! On the way to work or back home. Of course I don't take my eyes off the road, execept when Steve shows the picture of the week. 📷

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Mar 24

Is THe Abomination somehow the love child of Dept. Head Rawlings and The Homunculus?

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The Man We Know Only As The Homunculus Has Defected To Us

Ah, pardon me, gentlemen, for interrupting your weekly briefing. Do you mind if I avail myself of the coffee? Thank you indeed. I’ve had a long night of it. As will all of you, tonight and for the for...

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Mar 19

I'm not giving up hope that Rawlings will show up in @theonion.com again.
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I literally LOL at least once for every @theonion.com email newsletter I get, such as this instant classic: 🦴
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And buy this book !
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As Of This Briefing, We Have Commenced Operation Global Penumbra

Good afternoon, gentlemen, Mei-Ling, Your Grace, Madame Secretary. Welcome to the Department for Special Acquisitions and Liquidations. May I entreat you to take your seats? I thank you all for arrivi...

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Mar 19

Is Tushar on the tech support team or in sales?
💰💰💰😢
Apparently Tushar also forgot to ask about instances in Google Cloud too. 😮

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Mar 15

(realizing this after 50 years while heating something up in the microwave):
OF COURSE it's not "bad luck" that an accidentally dropped buttered slice of toast falls butter side down most of the time. DUH center of gravity and density.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Mar 1

At first I thought it was a waterlogged bagel.

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Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Feb 23

Apparently a lot of people like "smooth jazz". Is there another group of jazz enthusiasts who like "rough jazz"? 🤔

Bob Bryla @exadatadba.bsky.social · Feb 15

There are so many of them they had to join tables. Of course, in this case the tables can be joined with a database link but finishing a conversation took a lot longer than expected because of the high latency between each of the cloud providers even when they're in the same alcohol domain (AD).