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  • While preparing a talk for the upcoming annual German Oracle User Group conference, DOAG 2025, I noticed I haven’t yet written anything about the using the MLE PL/SQL Foreign Function Interface (or FFI for short) in APEX. The PL/SQL FFI was introduced in Oracle 23.7 to simplify the way developers (you!) work with PL/SQL. Rather…

  • Recently the MLE team was asked if it was possible to pass JSON PL/SQL types to MLE/JavaScript.Remember that you have multiple options to work with JSON in Oracle Database 26ai: SQL (using the JSON data type), PL/SQL (using the PL/SQL API), JavaScript (did you know that the J in JSON stands for JavaScript?), etc. Shout…

  • Oracle AI Database has been released! It ships with a whole raft of cool new features, including some the Multilingual Engine (MLE) team integrated for JavaScript. This article discusses one of them, support for PL/SQL Records and Collections. This is a rather wide topic, which is why you find the article broken into a small…