Tim Hall

Recently I was asked to create a database link between Oracle 19c and Snowflake. I’ve done similar links from Oracle to SQL Server and MySQL using ODBC, so I figured it would be simple. Along the way I hit a couple of snags, which I will point out here. Snowflake Credentials Using credentials to connect … Continue reading "Database Links from Oracle to Snowflake : How to fix a couple of problems…"

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You should start playing with new features as soon as you can, because it will take some time for you to start thinking about suitable uses for them. Things don’t just become part of your toolkit overnight. You’ve probably heard me say this over the years multiple times… Playing with assertions Over the weekend I … Continue reading "Third-Party Applications and Assertions in Oracle AI Database 26ai"

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Warning: A lot of the text in this post was generated by AI. The opinions/rants are mine. I know you think artificial intelligence (AI) will take over the world and subjugate or kill the human race, but the truth is way more boring. It will drown us in corporate bullshit. Local Setup The LLM Output … Continue reading "Artificial Intelligence (AI): The CEO BS Generator"

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I’ve mentioned several times about my backlog of 3+ year old posts that have been waiting for an on-prem release of 23c/23ai/26ai. Since the release of the on-prem version of Oracle AI Database 26ai I’ve been working through those posts, checking the content and updating the doc links. I think that process is now complete. … Continue reading "Oracle AI Database 26ai : Latest articles on my website"

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A few months ago I wrote a post about running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally using Ollama and Open WebUI. That works well, and feels very much like how you might want to run an LLM on a server in your organisation, but it’s not exactly friendly if you are not used to getting your … Continue reading "Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally using LM Studio"

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Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.2.6. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done an install on a Windows 10 and attempted one on a Windows 11 PC. As mentioned in my post about the previous release (here), the updates are not as straight forward as they used to be. In both cases I had to do … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.6"

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A couple of days ago Oracle released Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem for Linux x64. You can download it from here. This opens the floodgates for a bunch of articles I’ve been sitting on for over 3 years. First things first are the installations, so here goes. Installation Articles Here are the usual suspects. Vagrant … Continue reading "Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem Installations"

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I’ve got an old Intel MacBook Pro 15″, which was no longer getting operating system updates, so I decided to install Linux Mint 22.2 to keep it going for a while longer. I only use it for watching crap (YouTube, Prime Video, Netflix), so there was nothing on the laptop I cared about. Prep Work … Continue reading "Another Linux Mint Convert"

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The new My Oracle Support (MOS) portal has gone live, and it’s not been well received so far. I just want to mention a few things that are affecting me as a regular user of MOS, in the hope that someone will see them and fix them ASAP. Update from Oracle (12 Dec 2025) Oracle … Continue reading "My Oracle Support (MOS) Portal : What needs fixing?"

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Over the last few days there have been some rumblings about the proper on-prem release of Oracle AI Database 26ai. Yes I know you can run it on-prem on engineered systems or using cloud@customer, but that is not the proper on-prem release as far as I’m concerned. Yesterday the rumblings became a firehose due to … Continue reading "Oracle AI Database 26ai On-Prem Announced"

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It was my session at UKOUG Discover 2025 yesterday. For those that came to the session, thank you. For those that couldn’t make it, but want to know what I was speaking about, it was essentially this blog post, with a bit more attitude. Retired again It’s become a bit of a standing joke over … Continue reading "UKOUG Discover 2025 : Retired again…"

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According to Wikipedia the Gartner Hype Cycle is a graphical representation of the “maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies” . Gartner produce hype cycles for various technologies by placing those technologies, or individual aspects of them on the hype cycle. You can argue about the accuracy and relevance of this approach, but it serves … Continue reading "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Gartner Hype Cycle"

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Fedora 43 was released a few days ago. Let’s start with the standard warning. Here are the usual suspects. As explained in the first link, I just do this for fun, and to see what is coming to RHEL/OL in the future. Vagrant & Packer I pushed Vagrant builds to my GitHub. If you want … Continue reading "Fedora 43 and Oracle"

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Yesterday was an Oracle community day called the Joel Kallman Day (#JoelKallmanDay) 2025. 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.  Along the way I … Continue reading "Joel Kallman Day 2025 : It’s a Wrap! (#JoelKallmanDay)"

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If you were on the internet yesterday you will have seen that Oracle announced Oracle AI Database 26ai at this year’s Oracle AI World. Mike Dietrich wrote about it here, which should answer some of the obvious questions. Here are some comments. Installations The first thing I did was download the Oracle AI Database 26ai … Continue reading "Oracle AI Database 26ai Released"

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Several recent events have made me reflect about community, so I thought it might be worth writing about it for #JoelKallmanDay. Creators Communities require people who actually produce something. In the case of the Oracle community that includes bloggers, YouTubers and people who help answer questions on the internet. That’s not an all encompassing list, … Continue reading "Thinking about community #JoelKallmanDay"

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Something happened to me yesterday and it has been bugging me, so I thought I would write about it to try and get it out of my head… What happened? I was driving on a two lane stretch of a motorway (freeway) with no hard shoulder (shoulder, breakdown lane). I was doing about 60 mph … Continue reading "Perspective is everything"

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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 2025 : Announcement"

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As the undisputed worlds worst APEX developer, I just wanted to share a little story that illustrates why I love APEX when trying to deliver value as quickly as possible. Background We have an interface that uploads data from an on-prem service to a 3rd party product running on a cloud service. It does this … Continue reading "A little story of Oracle APEX (Low Code) for the win"

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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.0 Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.2.0. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done an install on a Windows 10 and a Windows 11 PC and it worked fine in both cases. Vagrant 2.4.9 There is a new new version of Vagrant available. You can download version 2.4.9 from here. Vagrant 2.4.9 works with … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.0 and Vagrant 2.4.9"

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