August 2025

Identify driver details of your cloud VM’s block devices

While preparing a presentation for POUG 2025 I had a need to find out more about…
Why does my call to json_table return null for a column despite it not being empty?

I recently worked on a fun project involving JSON and Oracle Database 23ai. I had to…
Group-by-all is awesome for digging in performance data

Oracle Database 23ai Release Update 9 introduces yet another new feature aimed at improving the developer…
What’s new with MLE 23.9 – no need to grant execute on javascript

Oracle Database 23ai introduces In-Database JavaScript for Linux x86-64 and aarch64. That’s Linux on Intel and…
Troubleshooting errors in ORDS container image entrypoint

I’m a huge fan of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) and use it extensively. I’m also…

Identify driver details of your cloud VM’s block devices