October 2025

Passing JSON PL/SQL types to MLE JavaScript

Recently the MLE team was asked if it was possible to pass JSON PL/SQL types to…
What’s new with MLE 23.26.0 – support for PL/SQL Collections and Records Pt 1

Oracle AI Database has been released! It ships with a whole raft of cool new features,…
Using Oracle Database Free in your devcontainer and GitHub Codespaces

Dev containers are pretty nifty when it comes to keeping your development environment isolated from the…
Java devs, please instrument your code 🥺

While preparing a talk for Java developers I revisited the topic of code instrumentation. Within the…
ORA-942 in MLE/JavaScript, but the query runs fine in my IDE! What gives?

This article is part of the upcoming Troubleshooting JavaScript chapter that should soon make it into…
Successfully Using SQLcl Projects If Your Production Branch Isn’t Called “main”

This short note demonstrates that the the production branch name is configurable in SQLcl projects. If…
Intro to Post-Execution Debugging in SQL Developer for VSCode

Post-execution debugging has been an integral feature in Multilingual Engine/JavaScript from the very beginning. It allows…
Life hack: encode a URL in a QR code using APEX

Someone in the community once said to me that APEX is awesome even if you’re not…