Bob Bryla

Hmmm.... could Oracle Support's "new and improved" web site be any more unusable, buggy, oversimplified, and useless?

Amateur tip: don't plug your wired mouse connector into the RJ45 port. 🤔 Even though it fits horizontally you will get neither a working mouse nor network connectivity.

Autonomous Database 26ai Vector Compression Levels Oracle’s Autonomous AI Database runs on Exadata with built-in AI functionality. For vector processing in the database, you can choose your LLM and add vector datatypes to any database table a…

Squeezing VECTOR columns on Oracle AI Database 26ai? It happens.
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a cartoon of a man covering his ears and the words finally ALT: a cartoon of a man covering his ears and the words finally

More like a late January present, but I'll take it.

Well, I had to finally ask one of the LLM models that the Oracle AI Database 26ai uses in it's training courses. 🤔
#Oracle #26ai

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For some reason, I thought of @sqlhandle.bsky.social when I saw this.
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Are #OracleAIDatabase #26ai autonomous databases not yet caught up with the new version numbering? (i.e., 23.26.0)? I just created a new 26ai autonomous database, but it looks like the version is an October 2025 RU update to 23.10.0.25.10 instead?

OK, this is supposed to include Autonomous? I just created an "always free" 26ai database; but the version shows as 23.10.x.x.x instead of 23.26.0? Thanks.

Is this some BlueSky or AI automation that reposts? Reposting about an old version of SD doesn't seem that helpful.

I was behind this city bus over the weekend, and I suspect this marketing campaign is going to backfire.

INCEPTION

I remember seeing Weird Al in his early years -- touring with Doctor Demento, his mentor, at an Iowa City dive bar in the early 80s.

Mattress Store Experiments With Non-Blowout Sale RICHMOND, VA—In a radical departure from its established tradition of total liquidation extravaganzas, Northside Mattress Warehouse on 112 Chamberlayne Rd. will use this coming weekend to test a sales...

Yeah, blowout sales always sounds like something painful after eating at Taco Bell the day before. I'm good with stores that have "fairly low prices". #TheOnion
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A Vector Function by Any Other Name… In my ongoing review of Oracle Database 23ai’s vector functions, there was some confusion about which distance functions are equivalent, what the aliases are for a few of the specific vector …

Aliases, relatives, and distances: oh my!
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Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Vectors from Oracle Database 23ai One of the key features of Oracle Database 23ai is creating multi-dimensional vectors and storing them alongside relational data in your tables. As I was investigating how vector datatypes were sto…

Finally dipping my big toe into the intricacies of vector processing in Oracle Database 23ai with ChatGPT's help.
#OracleDatabase #23ai
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Currently hanging out in 6-dimensional space. I guess I'm about 114.99 dimension-units from home. #OracleDatabase #23ai

I did this with 23.7 in the pre-built VirtualBox appliance:

alter system set inmemory_force=base_level scope=spfile;
alter system set inmemory_size=256m scope=spfile;

Of course there is only so much memory to work with, but I see this at the PDB level:

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Use code. No token tumbling. I know you need tokens to think.
(one of my LLM prompts today)

I see that the OP provided the good and bad plans -- is there any other further answer to their question about plan stability?

Things were going great today until cell storage offloading broke on #Oracle #Exadata again. 😡 I HATE when that happens.

A1 is getting so powerful these days.

I am attributing much of my success using #OracleDatabase this week to "Vibe Querying".

I'll never tire of taking an #Oracle database query that runs for hours and never finishes, making a minor tweak to the query structure, then seeing it run in a few seconds on #Exadata.

#twit @twit.tv #SecurityNow How I watch Twit shows! On the way to work or back home. Of course I don't take my eyes off the road, execept when Steve shows the picture of the week. 📷

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Is THe Abomination somehow the love child of Dept. Head Rawlings and The Homunculus?

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As Of This Briefing, We Have Commenced Operation Global Penumbra Good afternoon, gentlemen, Mei-Ling, Your Grace, Madame Secretary. Welcome to the Department for Special Acquisitions and Liquidations. May I entreat you to take your seats? I thank you all for arrivi...

I'm not giving up hope that Rawlings will show up in @theonion.com again.
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I literally LOL at least once for every @theonion.com email newsletter I get, such as this instant classic: 🦴
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And buy this book !
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Is Tushar on the tech support team or in sales?
💰💰💰😢
Apparently Tushar also forgot to ask about instances in Google Cloud too. 😮

(realizing this after 50 years while heating something up in the microwave):
OF COURSE it's not "bad luck" that an accidentally dropped buttered slice of toast falls butter side down most of the time. DUH center of gravity and density.

At first I thought it was a waterlogged bagel.