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Gianni Ceresa

@gianniceresa

Oracle ACE Director ♠️, Analytics, or just “Data” (of any shape, kind, and size) Consultant, owner of DATAlysis LLC. Having fun with Raspberry Pis and similar toys, coding random things, arguing with AI, and a lot more… (@G_Ceresa on Twitter/X)

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The Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory is available.
The doc is still "work in progress" requiring some imagination, the OCI Marketplace image is very "picky" in shape and hardcoded, but it somehow works.
The configuration was also fun...
#OracleDatabase #GenAI

09.01.2026 12:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Didn’t test it, but the OpenAI doc gives a possible answer:

“…the two open-weight models support three reasoning efforts—low, medium, and high—which trade off latency vs. performance. Developers can easily set the reasoning effort with one sentence in the system message.”

09.12.2025 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
UK OUG Conference 2025 in Birmingham - Neil Chandler speaking about Oracle Transactions

UK OUG Conference 2025 in Birmingham - Neil Chandler speaking about Oracle Transactions

I'll be speaking at #UKOUGDiscover2025 ukoug.org/page/UKOUGDi... about how transactions in Oracle really work.

The agenda is up and online, and most excellent sessionize.com/api/v2/kspp9...

Hope I'll see you in Birmingham on 30th November! #UKOUG25

07.10.2025 09:25 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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@gianniceresa.bsky.social combining the reasoning power of LLMs with... something? @sym42.bsky.social

06.09.2025 11:47 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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And it’s over, sadly. #poug2025 ended yesterday, and it was a great 10th anniversary event very well organised by the @pougorg.bsky.social team.
Well done @luizafrompoland.bsky.social and @ora600pl.bsky.social

Looking forward to #poug2026, no idea where it will be, but I will be there.

07.09.2025 08:32 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

And now the LLM is calling me stupid 😐

"The user seems confused about what this data represents."

It isn't like I said exactly what the data meant in the prompt, and that all they column names are very much explicit.

Time to go back at using my own brain: fully natural and somewhat intelligent.

22.05.2025 15:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ah! So it was you hiding behind that LLM and charging me without any answer!!

😂

22.05.2025 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

More pointless interactions with LLMs…

Me: “I have a large tabular dataset, can you analyse it for me?”
LLM: “sure, send it”
Me: ask a question and provide the whole data
LLM: “looks like you provided a large dataset, you should analyse it first and you will find answers to your questions”
Thanks 🙄

22.05.2025 15:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Very pleased to be recognized as an Oracle Analytics Ambassador for 2025.
Why not you next year? It's easy: join the community, be active in the forum, take part in the challenges, share ideas.
community.oracle.com/products/ora...

blogs.oracle.com/analytics/po...

@benjaminarnulf.bsky.social

19.05.2025 07:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What are you doing early September?
I have the answer for you: you are in Poznan (Poland) attending #POUG2025 !
I can't even imagine you could have other plans, because the events organized by @pougorg.bsky.social are too good to be missed.

Have a look at the agenda: poug.org/edycja/poug-...

19.05.2025 07:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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It @gianniceresa.bsky.social explaining property graphs in #oracle 23ai Italian-style #ougn #theboat

15.05.2025 15:03 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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About to leave Kiel at #ougn2025 and @chandlerdba.bsky.social is ready to tell us everything, or a lot, or something, about Unified Auditing in #oracledatabase

15.05.2025 11:58 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s #ougn2025 time! The conference is back on the boat and about to start with they opening keynote.

14.05.2025 09:14 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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We think you'd enjoy #POUG2025 too.

You can meet @jloracle.bsky.social and the rest of the gang in September. Last tickets with 20% discount: poug.org/edycja/poug-...

30.04.2025 08:08 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Hi, I’m Gianni and I’m a #POUGaholic.

See you at #POUG2025 !!

25.04.2025 09:29 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Do you know that at the #POUG2025, you can win a lifetime free POUG ticket? This will be the award in our 10th anniversary celebration contest!

So, by buying a ticket now with a 20% discount, you might be purchasing a ticket for life to our conferences 😎
poug2025.konfeo.com

17.04.2025 08:59 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
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docker-images/OracleAnalyticsServer at master · gianniceresa/docker-images Source for Docker configurations, images, and examples of Dockerfiles for Oracle Analytics Server and OBIEE 12c - gianniceresa/docker-images

Oracle Analytics Server 2025 has been released a few hours ago.

You can easily test it by using a Docker image: github.com/gianniceresa...

As simple as that, 12 months of upgrades ready to be tested.

11.03.2025 23:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OUGN2025 Spring conference in Oracle User Group Norway 14-16 May

Booking done!
Join me at #ougn2025 May 13-16 (on the ship Oslo-Kiel-Oslo).
I will be speaking about SQL/PGQ in #oracledatabase 23ai and about how to build a full (smart) RAG solution with OCI GenAI.

Find the other speakers and sessions at 2025.ougn.no

05.03.2025 10:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In this session we looked at how to

- Structure database code files in version control
- Use Liquibase in SQcl to automate database releases

Thanks to @jasminfluri.bsky.social for joining me

The recording is now available at

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmmy...

23.01.2025 13:33 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

And it did work!
I couldn't get rid of the AI thing, but I have an extra year for cheaper than the older price.
You can add multiple license keys to extend for multiple years, up to 5 years (that's what Microsoft website says).

23.01.2025 13:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My renewal is in 2 months, but I just checked the "price" and it went up by the same amount as yours. But I don't see any option to change that.
I'm now going to try by buying a license key in a shop and add that as extension (and it's even cheaper), with some luck it works :D

23.01.2025 12:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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@oraclebase.bsky.social telling the audience the database 23ai features he likes and will use at #ukougdiscovery24 #ukoug2024

03.12.2024 13:04 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@mikedurran.bsky.social opening the first day of the #ukougdiscovery24 conference in Birmingham.
He is about to talk about #OracleAnalytics APIs.

02.12.2024 09:02 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@ora600pl.bsky.social doing his usual things in his talk about low code becoming low level code, at super Sunday #ukoug2024 #ukougdiscover24

01.12.2024 13:18 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Already time for the last conference of the year.
On my way to #UKOUGDiscover24 #ukoug2024 by UKOUG.
I will speak about various topics including #OracleAnalytics, SQL/PGQ graphs, GenAI and RAG, and some data analysis.

See you in Birmingham!

30.11.2024 10:18 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

If you are in Birmingham next Tuesday, if you are attending #ukougdiscover24, if you are using, have used, are interested in, are curious about Oracle Analytics products, then you can't miss the Oracle Analytics Community Breakfast Tuesday morning.

#OracleAnalytics

28.11.2024 09:51 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you at #UKOUGDiscovery24 by UKOUG in Birmingham next week?

Do you work with #OracleAnalytics products? Or are you interested in these products?

Join the Oracle Analytics Community Breakfast Tuesday 3rd December at 8am.

Click "I'm Interested" on community.oracle.com/products/ora...

25.11.2024 14:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

When they will have an account, it should be @ace.oracle.com .
Hopefully they are just trying to find somebody with access to the Oracle DNS to enter the TXT record 😁

25.11.2024 12:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UK O U G conference badge showing Neil Chandler is a speaker

UK O U G conference badge showing Neil Chandler is a speaker

See you on Sunday 1st December (and Monday and Tuesday!) in Birmingham for the #UKOUG Conference!

It's more than just a few talks. The ability to meet, network, learn, chat to experts, discover partners and grow ourselves and our businesses is invaluable.

See you there!

ukoug.org/page/UKOUGCo...

25.11.2024 09:43 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Less than a week to #UKOUGDiscover24 in Birmingham (Sunday-Tuesday).

I will be speaking about various topics, from #OracleAnalytics to SQL/PGQ in 23ai to RAG and GenAI.

Still time to join the conference: ukoug.org/general/cust...

25.11.2024 09:29 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0