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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A new ORDS quarterly release is out: with additions to our Deep Data Security, MCP Server capabilities, Oracle DB API for MongoDB. An Honorable Mention goes out to the Oracle Fusabase team too (where ORDS plays a supporting role). See the details here: www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o...

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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 · 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

We also provide folks with free access to a 26ai database as a "FreeSQL" user. We'll plug your connection details into VSC, or if you don't yet have the Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code extension, we'll prompt to download and then enter in your FreeSQL connection details. Thanks FreeSQL team 🙌

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

Now, on to part two. Part two takes the previous configuration and uses it to showcase this JWT authorization/authentication in a simple single-page web application. We use JavaScript, basic HTML, Node.js, and Express.js too. You can follow along here: blogs.oracle.com/database/pos...

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 02/12/2024

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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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Observed a new ORDS use case while on a support call yesterday. (Hopefully) helped one of our customers by recreating their workflow and diagnosing some of their API woes. I’d never heard of @jotform.bsky.social or Pipedream. Anybody else doing something like this?? #apiintegration #apis #oracle

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In the process of updating the implicit bind parameters section of the ORDS dev guide, I noticed we don’t specifically call out automatic binds of POST data. There are certain conditions/scenarios, but check out the details and examples below. A version of this will make it into the OFFICIAL docs.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

ORDS 24.3 is now available 😍. It took me 11 seconds to upgrade! What are you waiting for? Details here: oracle.com/database/sql... #releaseday #Mondaymotivation #oracledatabase

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

View from my room at Cloud World. Hey! If you're coming to the conference, be sure to register for all of our sessions. Hand-picked for your convenience 😀https://followthecoffee.com/see-you-at-oracle-cloud-world-2024/ #thursday #thursdayvibes #lasvegas #cloudworld

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Some select slides from an ORDS workshop we’ll be presenting at Oracle CloudWorld 2024. We’ve got a nice VM setup for participants. They’ll be able to configure their Python app and ORDS APIs all in one environment. Still making tweaks, can’t wait for the reveal 😍

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

It’s a complete revamp of our previous python/flask app that uses some Jinja2 templating, JavaScript, and Bootstrap HTML/CSS. I’ve been building this out for about 3 months straight…almost ready to unveil it. What a grind 😭 and learning experience! Here’s Page 2 of 2:

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Still making little tweaks, but here are some current screenshots of the sample ORDS app we’ll be presenting at Cloud World. Page 1 of 2. The idea is to provide in-context clues/hints where ORDS plays a significant/important role.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Most certainly not corporate-approved for the official Cloud World / ORDS lab slides… 🤫 #4thofJuly #CloudWorld #Database #ThursdayMotivation #thursdayvibes

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

ORDS 24.2 is out now 😍! Download/Release Notes page here: www.oracle.com/database/sql... AND my companion blog post here: followthecoffee.com/ords-24-2-re... #ThursdayThrills #littlefriday #ords #oracledatabase #restapis #CloudWorld #NewRelease

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Some ORDS slides I be werkin' on....arrrrghh 🏴‍☠️. Still need to build the mapping (last bullet) some more. But it feels like this could make migration and integration of MongoDB-backed apps with the Oracle database easier 🤔. #Tuesday #CloudWorld #mongodb #TuesdayMorning

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Updating our Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) + python + flask app ahead of OCW24. We’re streamlining the app, and making it more beginner friendly too! Additional endpoints are in the works. But here is this week’s progress! #friday #flask #python #tutorial #restapi #oraclerest

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Added a slider to our updated ORDS and LiveLabs app today…it doesn’t “connect” yet, but it’s progress. Oh, added our logo too 🤪 #TuesdayMotivaton #flask #python #oraclerest #CloudWorld

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Sharing some fun work (w/ help from @thatjeffsmith.bsky.social ) we did today 😝! Working on some ORDS LiveLabs ahead of Cloud World 2024. We are adopting the popular "moviestream" data to use in our #23ai Autonomous Database #oracle #database #sql #lasvegas

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

New ORDS/Database Actions joint coming soon. Teaser screenshot for now 😎! #oracle #oci #oraclecloud #Wednesday #video #oracledatabase #23ai #oraclerest

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Sometimes I feel dumb for not knowing “obvious” things like the Format button in Database Actions’ SQL Worksheet. 🤦🏻 #Tuesday #oci #oracle #oraclerest #oraclecloud #database #oracledatabase

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Wrote another rage-post...with the most explicit, specific title I could think of 🤣! I think I should create a new category on my blog: followthecoffee.com/setting-up-s... #tuesdaymotivations #TuesdayFun #databased #oci #oraclecloud

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

This is when you know it’s time to pack it up for the day…after about 10 hours of working on this on/off. Time to call it a day! #monday #clockingout #signingoff #sendhelp

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

ORDS now supports authenticating with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). But to decode your token, I've only seen web-based clients. Thought I'd try working something up in JavaScript. This function accepts my token and then (see in console) decodes for me.

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

First, have you seen the new LaunchPad layout in Database Actions (aka SQL Developer Web)? And second, who on here has a cool example of using the ORDS status_code Implicit Parameter? I'd like to see what is being done, I have little experience with it. #MondayMood #oracle #mondayvibes #database

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

More updates on my code...trying to get this streamlined so we have more time to play with and write about ORDS enhancements😍. I'm officially going crazy with these release notes though... @thatjeffsmith.bsky.social please send help. #FridayVibes #sos #WeekendVibes #helpless

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

At what point to you automate tasks? I'm [officially] working on my second go at ORDS release notes (3rd if we're generous)...a lot of things can be expedited...mostly cleaning, arranging, and sub-setting the fixes/enhancements. What do you think? #thursdayvibes #database

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Yesterday, it took me ~40 secs to install the latest ORDS release. We are on 24.1! You may notice some changes to the interactive installer (more database pool options). This is me updating my local install, which talks to my Podman container 😬 #oracle #rest #saturday #database #oraclesql

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Had some "free time" today to start working on a new ORDS short video...I'm learning DaVinci Resolve...quite the learning curve. But I think I've reached a limit in iMovie 😢 #oracle #database #sql #ords #oraclesql #thursdayvibes

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chrishoina @chrishoina.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Good evening class...today we'll review Results Caching in the Oracle Autonomous Database, and how you can "Explain" in ORDS' Database Actions. Here, I review the example query, using the Explain Plan function. There are three ways to explore 😍 ! Class dismissed. #Oracle #restapis #oraclecloud #sql

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