Gerald Venzl
@gvenzl.bsky.social
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Defender of Common Sense, Performance Enthusiast, #Database and #SQL guy, Creator of #csv2db. “Write code to solve problems, not to create them!” 🇦🇹
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"[...]" #SQL popularity with employers is a natural extension of today’s emphasis on networked and cloud-based system architectures, where #databases become the natural repository for all the bytes a program’s logic is chewing on."

spectrum.ieee.org/top-programm...
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Adventures are better when shared - #ACEAdventure 2025 #OracleAIWorld
#OracleAIWorld is a wrap! What a couple of intensive but amazing days.
That one can see on the registry itself. See the architecture column next to the tags.
Of course, plenty of tags to grab from container-registry.oracle.com
Nothing to fix.

Linux x86 is and has been for years the first platform for Oracle Database releases. Windows x86 and Linux arm64 (including the container image) are coming in a few weeks.
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A huge thank you to the 60+ Oracle ACEs who joined our program update meeting today! 🌟 Special appreciation goes to our outstanding speakers for sharing their knowledge and insights. Your passion and expertise keep our community thriving.
#OracleACE
Yes, Oracle Free is the future.
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📢 Oracle AI World attendees, make sure to visit our Oracle User Groups booth in the AI Hub.

🚶‍♂️‍➡️ Come by and say Hi!
👨‍🏫 Learn what User Groups are all about
💡 Walk away knowing more about what's in it for you
Big milestone today! Congrats to all our amazing ACEs and this ever growing community!
We’re thrilled to announce a new milestone: there are now 600 Oracle ACEs worldwide! 🌍🎉

Thank you to this incredible community of advocates, innovators, and experts for driving knowledge, collaboration, and inspiration across the globe.
Here’s to even more growth and impact!
#OracleACE
The #monktoberfest ‘25
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GraalVM @graalvm.org · Sep 16
GraalVM 25 is here, with lots of updates for native compilation, GraalPy, GraalJS, and WebAssembly.
Faster and better than ever!🐰🚀
Download: www.graalvm.org/downloads/
Release notes: www.graalvm.org/release-note...
We love hiding Easter eggs! :) Well done finding that one!
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Oracle Database 23.9 added non-positional inserts

This assigns values to columns in the SET clause (like UPDATE)

INSERT INTO employees
SET employee_id = 210, first_name = 'Gerald', ...

@gvenzl.bsky.social dives into the details and gives the backstory in
Non-Positional INSERT statement – the insider story
Oracle Database 23.9 implements the non-positional INSERT statement. In my social media posts, I called out that Oracle Database is the first and only database to support this functionality, and by…
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The yearly swag pack from @oracleace.bsky.social arrived today

#OracleACE #SWAG
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Virtual columns in Oracle Database have long been able to define calculated columns

These run the expression on read

Store the expression on write from release 23.7 with

AS ( ... ) MATERIALIZED

@gvenzl.bsky.social takes a closer look
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,…
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Writing it currently. :)