Tim Hall

Yesterday was an Oracle community day called the Joel Kallman Day (#JoelKallmanDay) 2026. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took the time to join in. Here is the list of posts I saw. If I missed you out, give me a shout and I’ll add you.  Thanks to everyone who … Continue reading "Joel Kallman Day 2026 : It’s a Wrap! (#JoelKallmanDay)"

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As my entry for #JoelKallmanDay 2026, I thought I would write about the continuous delivery of Oracle database features. Quick history lesson In the past there used to be quite a slow release cycle for the database. It varied a lot over the years, but it moved towards a first and second release of each … Continue reading "Continuous Delivery of Oracle Database Features #JoelKallmanDay"

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I had an odd issue with a baseline recently in 19c (19.32). I thought I would share it in case someone else comes across a similar issue. The initial problem We had a SQL statement that was running fine on non-production environments, but was getting a really odd execution plan in production. The non-production environments … Continue reading "SQL Plan Management (SPM) Baseline Issue"

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A couple of weeks ago a work colleague pointed out that Oracle database 19c was now supported on Oracle Linux 10 (OL10). I was pretty happy about this, and started looking at it that evening, but I quickly ran into some issues… I wasn’t going to post about this until the issues were resolved, but … Continue reading "Oracle Database 19c supported on Oracle Linux 10 (OL10), but…"

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Hot on the heels of VirtualBox 7.2.18, which I wrote a few days ago, we now have VirtualBox 7.2.20. The only update in this release is a fix for Windows, which didn’t affect me, but I’ve heard people complain about it.. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.20"

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Since 2016 we’ve had an Oracle community day where we push out content on the same day to try and get a bit of a community buzz. The name has changed over the years, but in 2021 it was renamed to the “Joel Kallman Day”. Joel was big on community, and it seems like a … Continue reading "Joel Kallman Day 2026 : Announcement"

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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.18 was released a couple of days ago. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem OK. Vagrant If you are into Vagrant you can find my builds here. https://github.com/oraclebase/vagrant You can see the list of Vagrant boxes I build and use here, but it’s … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.18"

The post Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.18 first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.18 was first posted on September 17, 2026 at 8:42 am.
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A few weeks ago Laurent Schneider messaged me to say Oracle Database 26ai (23.26.2) was supported on Oracle Linux 10 (OL10). That started the usual series of test builds. Basic Installations I already had an installation article for 26ai on OL10, but I updated it, including using the new preinstall package which is now in … Continue reading "Oracle AI Database 26ai (23.26.2) Supported on Oracle Linux 10 (OL10)"

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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.16 was released yesterday. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem fine. Vagrant If you are into Vagrant you can find my builds here. https://github.com/oraclebase/vagrant You can see the list of Vagrant boxes I build and use here. https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover/oraclebase As normal. I’ll be doing … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16 and Vagrant Box Hosting Issues"

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My last post was a rant about Oracle Support. As a result of that some folks from Oracle reached out for a meeting to discuss my experience. This was not about the specific SR, but my general experience of using Oracle Support as a customer. In this post I’ll discuss some of the information that … Continue reading "Oracle Support : An Update"

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If you follow me you know I have a history of moaning about Oracle Support. I have had some good experiences in the past, but overall I would have to judge the services as a complete fail. Website Since the migration of the main Oracle Support website, the user experience has been terrible. A lot … Continue reading "Oracle Support : A recent experience"

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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.14 a couple of days ago. As I mentioned in my previous post, I was expecting this release to coincide with the the normal quarterly patch cycle. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both worked fine. Vagrant I didn’t bother updating my Vagrant boxes for … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14"

The post Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14 first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14 was first posted on July 23, 2026 at 6:30 am.
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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.12 a couple of days ago. This comes hot on the heels of version 7.2.10, which I wrote about here. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem OK. As with the last version, on Windows 11 I got away with a straight upgrade, but … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12"

The post Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12 first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12 was first posted on July 2, 2026 at 10:39 am.
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After my recent posts on this subject I got some questions, and I thought I would use my responses to write a new post. I’m hoping this makes the situation more clear. I’ll link my other posts on this subject at the bottom, in case you want to look at them. Some of these topics … Continue reading "Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : Some Clarification"

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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.10 a couple of days ago. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both went fine. On Windows 11 I got away with a straight upgrade this time, but it’s worth remembering the cleanest way to upgrade on Windows is to do the following. … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.10"

The post Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.10 first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.10 was first posted on June 18, 2026 at 3:20 pm.
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I’ve posted on social media a few times about various open weight models released by Google. A recent post resulted in this question. “how to store and use an gemma 4 model from oracle database?” I gave this answer. “You would have to use the EmbeddingGemma model. Then programmatically generate the vector embeddings outside of … Continue reading "AI Vector Search : Generating vectors outside of the database using Ollama and EmbeddingGemma"

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I’ve written a few posts about running local LLMs. Up until now I’ve been running them on my crappy old laptop. It’s a bit slow, but it works OK. The problem is it uses most of the local resources and I can’t do much else until the LLM finishes the task. My original plan was … Continue reading "Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : My new inference machine"

The post Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : My new inference machine first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : My new inference machine was first posted on June 3, 2026 at 6:25 am.
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I’ve been reading and watching a lot of content about AI assisted development, and without fail the people who are getting the most out of it seem to be those where agile and DevOps development are already part of their culture. Some basic definitions Here are some basic definitions that will help with the discussion. … Continue reading "No Agile? No DevOps? Without them your AI assisted development will fail!"

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Fedora 44 was released a few days ago. Let’s start with the standard warning. As usual I worked through a few variations of Oracle installations on Fedora, including 26ai. The only real gotcha was 21c, which required a downgrade of the binutils package to install. In comparison 19c and 26ai were cleaner. As explained in … Continue reading "Fedora 44 and Oracle"

The post Fedora 44 and Oracle first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Fedora 44 and Oracle was first posted on May 5, 2026 at 6:33 am.
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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.8 a few days ago. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done an install on a Windows 10 and 11. I had some issues with the previous version on Windows 11, but that was probably an issue with my machine. I tried this version on Windows 11 and it worked fine. As … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.8"

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