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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oracle AI World is coming up. We'll be featuring a very special AI hackathon. Are you attending? If so, be sure to register for the hackathon too. Or, just come hangout and watch the fun. Details here: reg.rf.oracle.com/flow/oracle/... We can't wait to see you this year. #aiworld #oracledatabase

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

ORDS 26.1.2 is now available; some security bugs on this one. Our download page has a new 18-month "trailing" Change-log; displaying currently supported ORDS versions. www.oracle.com/database/sql... And on the way: demo of deploying ORDS w/ OCI Database API Gateway Configuration Service. Stay tuned.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A follow-up to this post, a new companion video: youtu.be/AcF1CP6P9z0?... Not meant to replace, but rather complement the article. Lessons learned working with Vectors as well as general ORDS wisdom. Like this sort of content? Let me know. We can do other videos on our database tools too.

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An intro to the ORDS /vectorSearch and /vecdb/embed REST APIs

YouTube video by Chris Hoina

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

ORDS 26.1 dropped 2 weeks ago. 26.1 has a TON of VECTOR-focused ORDS APIs; like the new /vectorSearch endpoint. Check out this article where I discuss a common use case and how I've solved for it with ORDS and VECTOR search. blogs.oracle.com/database/pai... #AI #LLMs #oracleREST #vectorsearch #api

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

ORDS 26.1.0 is out, available for download (rolling out in ADB now): www.oracle.com/database/sql... In the meantime, take a look at the release notes here: www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... #vector #vectorsearch #huggingface #ords #rest #ONNX #apidevelopment #LLMs #LLM

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

onversation starter: Hypothetically, you want to load test your ORDS (/ords/) endpoints or APEX (/r/) app; in this case the Brookstrut APEX app. It's almost like the easy part is the test itself.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Curious about MCP Servers? Well, now is a great time to learn. We've just updated our SQLcl MCP Server LiveLab, yet again. The setup labs are even more streamlined and we've added some helpful steps for macOS AND PC users too. Try it out or share with others: livelabs.oracle.com/ords/r/dbpm/...

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New update to our SQLcl MCP Server Intro Lab: updated prompts for your AI Agents and we cut down on the lab's overall word count. Learn more here: livelabs.oracle.com/ords/r/dbpm/... #ai #oracle #26ai #cline #sqldeveloper #oracledatabase

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A reminder that k6 is still out there, and people are using it for their ORDS APIs too. Nice write-up: btimmerman.hashnode.dev/load-testing... At one point Grafana Labs had a .har -> k6 scenario script (.js) convertor browser extension. Making it much easier to create test scenarios. #api #testing

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

ICYMI, ORDS 25.4 is available for download and being updated across the Autonomous fleet. Link: www.oracle.com/database/sql... We've updated our image in the Oracle Container Registry, made doc improvements, and added fixes too. Release Notes: www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... #newrelease #ords #apis

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Want to just read/follow along? Check out these three companion blogs: blogs.oracle.com/database/pro... blogs.oracle.com/database/bui... blogs.oracle.com/database/pro... Video series is up next. See in real time how AI Agent + the SQLcl MCP Server and prompts work for the Oracle database.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I keep reviewing this SQLcl MCP Server LiveLab as new Tools are added and as LLM models mature. Today, the prompts in the LL are (see GIF). Review the lab and test the prompts with your favorite LLM API provider before I change them up again! livelabs.oracle.com/ords/r/dbpm/... #LLMs #AI #MCP #SQLcl

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SQLDaily @sqldaily.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

AI agents can help you build schemas and create test data @chrishoina.bsky.social shares an example prompt to store data about cars, trucks, motorcycles and their manufacturers Then shows you how to use it with SQLcl MCP Server and Cline to make the tables

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

While you are at it, might as well try out our new LiveLab too :) livelabs.oracle.com/pls/apex/dbp...

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Friday Announcement: ORDS 25.3 is now available for download (with ORDS in ADB dropping soon). Download the latest here: www.oracle.com/database/sql... Check out Sessionless Transactions. We'll have an upcoming demo provided by our TxEventQ team, so stay tuned for that. Links in the reply.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Since having placed some more focus on the ORDS image we've been getting lots of great feedback. Here is one example, Martin had some really great observations/thoughts on how we could improve the developer's debugging experience when working with our ORDS container. Thanks @martindba.bsky.social 😃

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Quoting oneself: cool or cringe? "Eventually...we'll all need to become "prompt engineers." And as you'll see [there], you actually have to know what you are doing to be able to ask the right questions and to challenge an LLM's assumptions." followthecoffee.com/from-one-api... #apis #LLM #ords

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Coming to you live from 35000ft, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. An ORDS and GraphQL tutorial: using Maven to build the polyglot and js dependencies for GraalVM 21: followthecoffee.com/ords-and-gra... #graalvm #oracle #database #maven #jdk #ords #oraclerest

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

ORDS 25.2 is now available for download! Download directly from www.oracle.com/database/tec... And review the Release Notes too www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... I'm following up with a blog with some examples, so stay tuned! #newrelease #productupdate #ords #oracledatabase #newordswhodis #plsql #rest

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I have a poll going for showing how to perform a legacy ORDS install/migration. I can set up a podman 23ai container with a legacy ORDS install and show you how to migrate to the latest ORDS version. Please read the details and vote. Would this be helpful? www.linkedin.com/posts/chrish...

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We keep seeing these legacy ORDS installs/migrations popping up more… | Chris Hoina

We keep seeing these legacy ORDS installs/migrations popping up more frequently. I can set up a podman 23ai container with a legacy ORDS install and show you how to migrate to the latest ORDS version....

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This united-codes site is really pretty, I am excited to see it grow :)

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

FYI to all, the ORDS team just published a new patch, 25.1.1. Now available for download here: www.oracle.com/database/sql... Two small bug fixes, and an update to our Jetty library. Happy Friday 😍 #oraclerest #oracledatabase #restapi #apidevelopment #jdk17 #jdk21 #graalvm #newupdate #bugfix

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New Oracle blogs are live! With a two-part tutorial showing you how to create custom claims in your Identity Domain, include them in a JSON Web Token, and use it to access ORDS OAuth2.0 protected resources. Part One is here: blogs.oracle.com/database/pos... #wednesday #oracle #restapis #oraclerest

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Sneak peek of an upcoming blog post. A super simple single page web app, exploring using JSON Web tokens with ORDS protected resources. This time using Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC). 😁😎

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The ORDS team has a brand-spanking new customer reference. Note only did Sphere just launch their new site, but they JUST presented at CloudWorld Miami too, check out the press release here: www.oracle.com/news/announc... If you are interested in attending as a speaker, drop me a DM, let's chat.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

ORDS 25.1 is now available for download: www.oracle.com/database/sql... And of course, you can check out the release highlights too: followthecoffee.com/ords-25-1-re... Give it a spin 😍 #newrelease #ords #oracledatabase #oraclerest #productupdate

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I shouldn’t be this excited about flame-graphs. But I am. What does that say about me? I’m getting some rad retro vibes with this color palette 😍

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Oh, Rockauto.com is another of this “dated” feeling websites, but it feels super fast, and no nonsense! I will take a 2000’s-era looking site over a newer slow-ass “responsive” site any day.

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RockAuto | All The Parts Your Car Will Ever Need

Auto Parts for Your Vehicle at Reliably Low Prices. Fast Online Catalog. DIY-Easy. Your Choice of Quality. Full Manufacturer Warranty.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Anybody who is doing front-end development would really appreciate this video youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ?... I like the idea of doing more server-side rendering too. I might have to dip my toes into the MLE/JS stuff.

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How is this Website so fast!?

YouTube video by Wes Bos

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Another quick heuristic for investigating connectivity, latency, and response times. Also, a good opportunity to learn more about ORDS and cURL 😍 Two options: 1: followthecoffee.com/troubleshoot... 2: chrishoina.medium.com/troubleshoot... #wednesday #learning #oraclerest #apis #troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting: reviewing ORDS connections, your application server, and response times

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just a quick ORDS + JWTs PSA. This applies to Oracle's Identity and Access Management provided JWTs. Maybe you've experienced this "error=invalid_token" error too? Here is how to resolve it: followthecoffee.com/401-unauthor... #troubleshooting #oracle #restapis #oraclerest #apidevelopment #jwts

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401 Unauthorized invalid_token – troubleshooting Oracle Cloud IAM JWTs with ORDS – Follow the Coffee

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

With this job, I learn and/or discover stuff on a daily basis. Seriously, it's insane. If you are bored with tech, it's surely your own doing! 🤪 My favorite times, however, are these "too-clever-for-our-own-good" solutions we come up with. Here is a fun one: followthecoffee.com/example-an-o...

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Example: an ORDS API that returns a user-configured JSON object – Follow the Coffee

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My girlfriend just asked me what I'm working on right now. And I responded with, "currently counducting an audit and subseqent culling of these inactive but open threads of this core application I'm using." Which is just a fancy way of saying, "closing out tabs in safari." #bethechange #hero #pm

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I just added a go module to the directory, cleaned up some of the code, and added some comments too! Check it out :)

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I think I might actually love Go 😍. @thatjeffsmith.com invited me along to an in-person customer presentation yesterday and while we were there one of the attendees asked if we had any ORDS + Go examples. Well, we didn't then...but WE DO NOW! #ords #oracle #go followthecoffee.com/a-simple-ord...

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A simple ORDS GET request using the Go language – Follow the Coffee

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Using the http[dot]client library was pretty dope. It was like a leaner, silent way of serving up the files to ORDS. Learned something new today @thatjeffsmith.com www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025... 😀 Might have to try that on my next POC 😬

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Secure IOT device uploads to Oracle Database via REST API

Easily setup your Internet of things (IOT) devices to share their telemetry data with your Oracle Database, via a secured REST API and a bit of Python.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Quick PSA post followthecoffee.com/503-service-... What does it all mean?! #ords #oraclerest #oracledatabase #connectionpools #troubleshooting

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thank you for letting me pontificate 🤣! Serioulsy though, good time. Good questions. Looking forward to the next one 🙌

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In an effort to make your lives easier, I HAND CODED the Table of Contents by hand too 😭! So, if you like this, please let me know! I'll keep doing it. Side note...if you know of a good plug-in or git repo for automating this, let me know!

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Finally done ✅! A full tutorial of how to set up ORDS to accept JSON Web Tokens from OCI Identity Access Management for accesing your protected resources/APIs. Let me know what you'd like to see next! followthecoffee.com/configuring-... #oracle #oci #apis #jwt #JWTs #OAuth #OAuth2.0 #Postman #API

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Configuring OCI IAM Domain JWTs to use with ORDS OAuth2.0 protected APIs – Follow the Coffee

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is lame. I'm a terrible SO citizen...how about somebody help me out and post a link to this on StackOverflow stackoverflow.com/questions/79... I'll reply with the links I've mentioned in my would-be post. #littlefriday #thursday #oraclerest #stackoverflow #banned #permabanned

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m constantly “context switching” in tools. It’s extremely annoying 🤬. Here’s a small win though. I was able to set my doc-root property in ORDS and then add our install and dev guides to my config folder. So, now I can just visit /install.pdf or /dev.pdf and CTRL+F till my heart’s content 😍!

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Who else has their webhooks pointing to ORDS endpoints? Any pointers for Luigi? Let’s help a fratello out. Link to forum post forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/... #oraclerest #ords #apis #apiintegration #oracledatabase

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

An internal discussion, over parallelism, that seems to be popping up more and more lately. Could be observer bias though 🤪😂...a quick 3 min read on TP and URGENT service levels in Oracle ATP and ADB. Thanks for the reminder Connor connor-mcdonald.com/2023/02/21/a...

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A key difference between TP and TPURGENT

When you are using Autonomous Transaction Processing database, as well as the LOW, MEDIUM and HIGH services that are also present on the Autonomous Data Warehouse offering, there are TP and TPURGEN…

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Webhooks can be finicky…here is how we helped a customer interrogate theirs using ORDS Implicit Bind Parameters followthecoffee.com/ords-as-a-jo... #oracle #ords #oraclerest #apiintegration #apidevelopment

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ORDS as a JotForm webhook: An actual customer use case – Follow the Coffee

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thanks for the reminder Peter 😄. A friendly reminder, be sure to review the most current ORDS support/lifecycle policy. www.oracle.com/tools/ords/s... As an example, we're still seeing a lot of ORDS 21.4 out there (we get it, it takes time)! Let's ring in the new year with a new version of ORDS 😍

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hey, when you are troubleshooting database connectivity issues, do you ever use telnet? I was just reviewing a support case, and this seems like a really clean way of isolating one of many variables. Here I’m interrogating an Oracle 23ai @podmanio.bsky.social container. #troubleshooting #database

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