Tim Hall

Due to a rather random sequence of events, I’ve recently been playing around with GraphQL. What is it? Well this is what Wikipedia says about it. “GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs, that allows a client to specify what data it needs (“declarative data fetching”). A GraphQL server can fetch data from separate sources for a single client query and … Continue reading "Playing with GraphQL and Oracle #JoelKallmanDay"

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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 2024 : Announcement"

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At work we’ve been using containers for a while. We started by running all our Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) inside Docker containers running on Oracle Linux 7 (OL7), and over time we’ve introduced some more services based on Podman containers running on Oracle Linux 9 (OL9). This was all done with very little drama. … Continue reading "When Podman refuses to stop containers"

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Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.1. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done an install on a Windows 11 PC and it worked fine. Working with Vagrant? The current version of Vagrant is 2.4.1, which doesn’t support VirtualBox 7.1. You can make it work by doing the following. Edit the “meta.rb” file, … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.1"

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This is a summary of some of the points covered in Juan Loaiza’s keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, with links to relevant posts to help you get started using them. AI Application Development The first section of the presentation discussed generative data and application development. These are some of the subjects he touched on. These … Continue reading "Generative Data Dev and App Dev"

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Oracle now have the main players lined up as far as their multicloud aspirations go. Here are the announcements for the main players. The original Azure interconnect announcement was in 2019 (here), but the expansion of their partnership is probably a bigger deal. Choice is good From my perspective this is cool because it gives … Continue reading "Oracle Multicloud – AWS, Azure, GCP"

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It’s been an odd few months on the content creation front. When Oracle Database 23c/23ai Free was released I was no longer under NDA for the shipped functionality, and I pushed out a glut of version 23 content here. Since then I’ve been waiting for the full on-prem release so I can publish the remaining … Continue reading "Getting inspiration from daily use (or not)"

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If you can’t make it to Oracle CloudWorld 2024 in Las Vegas, you can keep on top of thing by registering for Oracle CloudWorld 2024 On Air. I’m a stay at home cat dad these days, so I just registered for “On Air” here. It comes at the great price of $0. In previous years … Continue reading "Oracle CloudWorld 2024 (On Air)"

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I’ve mentioned this before in posts such as Automation Patterns for Typical DBA Tasks, but I think it’s worth mentioning again. A software repository, or library, is really important. Why? We should always keep hold of multiple versions of the software we are using. At the very least this should contain all current versions (and … Continue reading "Software repositories are really important!"

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There have been a couple of posts about the latest release of Oracle Database 23ai Free. First I saw Gerald Venzl with this post, talking about the latest version of the Docker image. Oracle Database 23.5 Free now available on gvenzl/oracle-free Next was Jeff Smith with his post about the VirtualBox image. Oracle Database 23ai … Continue reading "Oracle Database 23ai Free (23.5)"

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VirtualBox 7.0.20 has been released. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve installed it on my Windows 10 and 11 machines with no drama. Vagrant There was no new version of Vagrant since the last VirtualBox release. If you are new to Vagrant and want to learn, you might find this useful. Once you understand that, I … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.0.20"

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Here’s a little story about how things are all the same but different… Software Sprawl Let’s cast our minds back to the bad old days, where x86 machines were so underpowered, the thought of using them for a server was almost laughable. In those days the only option for something serious was to use UNIX … Continue reading "A History of Tech Sprawl"

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A couple of years ago I wrote the following post, where I detailed my journey through some skin cancer treatments. Life Update : Dude, what’s wrong with your face? Fast forward a couple of years and here we are again. Fortunately I didn’t need anything chopped off this time, but I did need to repeat … Continue reading "Life Update : Dude, what’s wrong with your face? (Episode 2)"

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A few days ago I mentioned a couple of new features related to bigfile tablespaces in Oracle database 23ai. Having played with these new features, a couple of things were added to my wish list. Convert Smallfile to Bigfile Tablespaces If would be awesome if we could convert smallfile tablespaces to bigfile tablespaces. At the … Continue reading "Oracle Database : A Bigfile and Shrink Wishlist"

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I’m starting to feel like the Dunning-Kruger Effect should be mentioned in every piece of media. What is it? “The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.” Wikipedia I see examples of this all the time and it drives me crazy. Uneducated People We have the stereotypes … Continue reading "The Dunning–Kruger Effect "

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Fedora 40 was released over a month ago. Here comes the standard warning. Here are the usual suspects. I like messing about with this stuff, as explained in the first link. I pushed Vagrant builds to my GitHub. If you want to try these you will need to build a Fedora 40 box. You can … Continue reading "Fedora 40 and Oracle"

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We’ve been pushing out some Oracle 19c databases on Oracle Linux 9 (OL9) since it was certified, see here, but those databases have not been monitored or backed up by Cloud Control, because the Enterprise Manager (EM) 13.5 agent was not certified on OL9. Instead we had reverted to the bad old days of using … Continue reading "Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 Release Update 22 (13.5.0.22) Certified on Oracle Linux 9 (OL9)"

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Here’s a little story about something that has happened over the last couple of days. Let’s start with some background. Building blocks Deployment pipelines and automations are made up of a number of building blocks including the following. The specific tools are not important I’ve said a number of times, the choice of the specific … Continue reading "Pipelines and Automation : Switching things up to avoid additional costs"

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The recent announcements of GTP-4o by OpenAI and the AI updates from the Google IO keynote made me want to revisit the topic of how AI search will affect the future content creation. I’ve already touched on this here, but I think it’s worth revisiting the impact of AI search. The view from the top … Continue reading "AI Search and the future of content creation"

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Oracle VirtualBox 7.0.18 VirtualBox 7.0.18 has been released. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve installed it on my Windows 10 and 11 machines. Both gave me issues, which I put down to the new version of VirtualBox, but on further investigation it was actually because of my new Vagrant box builds. If I used the new … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.0.18, Vagrant 2.4.1 and Packer 1.10.3"

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