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ChatGPT Won’t Replace MySQL DBA – An Example of a Question About Encryption at Rest

ChatGPT is the hottest topic in the tech world right now. One story even says that ChatGPT has passed Google’s Level 3 programming interview. I … ChatGPT Won’t Replace MySQL DBA – An Example of a Question About Encryption at Rest

March 28, 2023

Announcing custom third-party Python and R packages for use on Autonomous Database

In our continued expansion of Oracle Autonomous Database as a platform for data science and machine learning, we are pleased to announce that users of Oracle Machine Learning (OML) Notebooks and OML4Py and OML4R embedded execution are now able use custom-installed third-party packages in conda environments. — Read on blogs.oracle.com/machinelearning/post/third-party-python-and-r-packages-for-use-on-adb

March 24, 2023

tmux Tutorial

A very useful tool. Create new session: To dissconect from a session you are already in, I use Ctrl+b followed by pressing the d key. To re-attach to a session and continue where you left you need to figure out which session you want to attach to first. List the currently running sessions by using…

March 10, 2023

AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone

Image: The Verge A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams’ desk in early January. Williams, the editor of Asimov’s Science … “AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone” by Mia Sato

March 2, 2023

Problematic Statistics of the Application Objects in your Oracle Database

One of the often asked questions is to find out the status of the statistics of the application owned schemas. In this article, I will list the SQL code that I used for this purpose. As well, I will publish a SQL Developer report that can be used for the same purpose. For ease of…

February 11, 2023

Oracle Automated DB Maintenance Tasks

This is a short article on how to manage the automated Oracle database maintenance tasks. Make sure the needed rights are in place by running the check: Typical output is: If your user is not listed, you must grant EXECUTE in order to use the package: We can check what is enabled by running: With…

February 1, 2023