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Doug Drechsel

@databasedoug.bsky.social
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Oracle Developer Evangelist interested in Database, AI and Cloud with a focus on Micro Service development, Spring, Mobile and full stack. "Innovation is a process of failing fairly regularly.”

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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Stoic philosopher Epictetus reminds us how to live: "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." Source: Enchiridion #Stoicism #Epictetus #Philosophy #Wisdom #Mindset #Virtue #SelfMastery #LifeLessons
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Ditch chatbot obsession—AI’s real power is in specialized solutions, says Gary Marcus. I agree Editorial: nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... Learn about building specialized AI with Oracle AI Optimizer & Toolkit. oracle.com/database/ai-... #Oracle #AI #SpecializedAI #AIInnovation
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Investing in the Wrong A.I.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Larry Ellison’s #Oracle #AI World keynote is a must‑watch. First hour: how AI powers Oracle products—from infrastructure to apps. Last 30 mins: Oracle + partners solving real problems with AI reasoning. Fascinating insights into what’s next. 🎥 youtu.be/4eCFmbX5rAQ #EnterpriseAI #Visionary
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Larry Ellison Keynote on Oracle's Vision and Strategy: Oracle AI World 2025
YouTube video by Oracle
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Larry Ellison is running the table—leading Oracle’s AI surge, big media moves, and bold deals like TikTok USA. At 81, his vision and resilience keep him a giant in tech’s fast-changing world. #LarryEllison #Oracle #AI #Leadership #TechLegend #Innovation #MediaDeals #CloudComputing bit.ly/3WDlm97
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Larry Ellison’s Latest Gambit to Keep Oracle on Top Is His Biggest Bet Ever
Oracle has roared into the AI gold rush, but it’s taking on huge amounts of debt to do so. Last month’s $18 billion bond offering could be just the beginning.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I have so many questions
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Check out my new #Oracle Newsletter for #Developers! 🚀 Packed with curated blogs on Oracle tech, practical tips, and innovations to help you build smarter and faster. #AI, #Microservices, #SQL, #CloudNative — find your next spark here! medium.com/oracledevs/o...
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Oracle Developer Newsletter
I’m an Oracle Developer Evangelist, and I love this job. It lets me dive into Oracle’s latest technologies and share why developers should…
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
One of the great scientific endeavors of the modern age #Beer #Archeology #AncientParties www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
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Patrick McGovern, the ‘Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,’ Dies at 80
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This weeks listen Its title is inspired by the 1924 Russian dystopian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. We was the first novel officially banned in the Soviet Union. Excessive ambition, big ideas, complex arrangements, count me in! #ProgRock #Music #ArcadeFire open.spotify.com/album/2sAePf...
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Scale, security, performance. Our #cloud is built for the largest workloads across industries, helping countless organizations with the trusted cloud and #AI services they need to succeed. www.oracle.com/cloud/
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
No wonder my #horoscope was never right #astrology www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (Gift Article)
Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
#AI is reshaping software development. #GPT-5 hitting limits shows bigger models alone won’t deliver #AGI. The future is hybrid AI and new dev skills. I mapped a 3-year roadmap: from AI-assisted coding now to symbolic + neural AI systems ahead. #TechSkills #AIDev bit.ly/41HAFke
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GPT-5 Hit the Wall. Here’s Your 3-Year Roadmap for What Comes Next
I have worked in software development for almost 40 years. I’ve seen development trends come and go, but I have never seen the likes of AI…
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #anime #history
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How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z (Gift Article)
“Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Safest #AI bets? Infrastructure & hardware. Friday’s jobs report could give them another lift if rate‑cut hopes lower capex costs. #AIInnovation #TechStocks bit.ly/3JUmYrX
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Apple, Meta, Google CEOs Dined With Trump. Where AI Trade Goes From Here.
Trump’s Fed dispute heats up, Broadcom reveals new $10 billion AI customer, Goldman to invest in T. Rowe Price, and more news to start your day.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3551955... #nfl #grievance
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Nothing Is Sacred - Scott Hanson Says That Red Zone Will Have Commercials All Year, New Intro Is “7 Hours of RedZone Football Start Now“
We saw a quick peek last year of this:But now we know it’s for real. It proves nothing is sacred. I don’t want to hear about money or ads or anything like that. Red Zone has always been commercial fre...
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
#Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI 1.4.0 is GA. Build #Microservices with #SpringBoot or #Helidon, prototype #AI chatbots, agents, and RAG services. #Observability is unified with #SigNoz. medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
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Unlock AI-Powered Microservices with Oracle Backend 1.4.0
The team is thrilled to announce the general availability of Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI 1.4.0 — production-ready and packed…
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This week's #listen. See if you can spot David Gilmour's guitar work on some of the tracks on Disc 1 #70s #80s #music open.spotify.com/album/2V1Mbu...
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Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023
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Lev Akabas @levakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Lee Corso makes his final College GameDay headgear pick on Saturday Lots of data viz here: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lznH0 Here's all 430 of his picks, in one chart 👇
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Most enterprise #AI fails not because it’s weak, but because it’s too confidently wrong; the winners are building AI that knows when it doesn’t know. www.forbes.com/sites/jaimec...
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MIT Says 95% Of Enterprise AI Fail- Here’s What The 5% Are Doing Right
To succeed, enterprises must demand that AI is transparent about its uncertainty, integrated into workflows, and capable of improving with every interaction.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The real question isn’t “which framework is best?” It’s “which framework is best for this service, in this context?” #CloudNative #Microservices #SpringBoot #Helidon #Java #Architecture medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
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Framework Choice Strategy: When to Use Spring Boot vs Helidon in Cloud-Native Microservices
Introduction
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Origami bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. Cool #origami #space www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...
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Video: New Origami Design Could Help With Space Engineering
Researchers discovered a new type of origami called bloom patterns, which are repeating tiles of creased patterns that rotate symmetrically around a center. Engineers are working on real-life applicat...
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Literally, the last guy that I thought would be #trippin www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
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The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Built a pluggable #microservices framework: now #Spring Boot & #Helidon run side‑by‑side on #Oracle Backend. 🚀 #Vibecoded it in a month, AI‑assisted. 👉 medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
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Vibecoding a Pluggable Microservices Framework: How I Added Helidon Support to Oracle’s Platform
When Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI first launched, it supported only Spring Boot applications. Developers soon began requesting…
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Another great #album by Florida's JJ Grey and Mofro. A richly textured blend of swamp #funk, #blues, and #rock. 👍 open.spotify.com/album/1TK4IG...
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JJ Grey & Mofro · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
When University of Amsterdam researchers deployed 500 uniquely‑styled #ChatGPT bots on a simulated #SocialNetwork, they soon noticed familiar patterns. #AI partisan echo chambers concentrated influence among a small elite amplification of polarized voices arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Margaret Boden revolutionized #AI by unlocking the secrets of human creativity through computational thinking, reshaping how we understand—and build—the future of artificial intelligence. #AIPioneers #CreativeAI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
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Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"A rough analogy: You put people in an MRI machine, show them a bunch of pictures, and, if a picture activates a part of the brain associated with fantasizing about mass murder, you decide not to include that picture in elementary school curricula." Robert Wright www.anthropic.com/research/per...
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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This paper from Hugging Face researchers argues against developing fully autonomous #AI agents, presenting a systematic analysis of how risks increase with agent autonomy levels. #AIAgents #AISafety arxiv.org/abs/2502.026...
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Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
This paper argues that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed. In support of this position, we build from prior scientific literature and current product marketing to delineate different A...
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Snap’s Q2 2025 earnings were hit by a technical glitch in its ad-buying platform updt, which allowed ads to be purchased at much lower prices than intended. This misconfig reduced ad revenue for the quarter. #Tech #Test #SNAP #Oops bit.ly/4lddvJi
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Snap Earnings: Snapchat Parent Stock Tumbles on Disappointing Report
Shares of Snap were falling sharply Tuesday evening after the social media company reported worse-than-expected second-quarter financial results.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
See how you do on these 5 questions #Tech #AI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...
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Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A fun use of #AI #travel #france www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/a...
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What’s on Cupid’s Mind at Versailles? A.I. Can Tell You.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Saw Blizzard of Oz tour at the Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ There is a rather large list of video taped concerts from the 70's and 80's. What a Great Rock/Folk/Punk Music archive #MusicArchive #ClassicConcerts www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Full concerts from the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 1973-87 - YouTube
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Running late? Or just fashionably late? Find out why some people treat clocks like strict bosses, and others like casual suggestions—and how your “time personality” could save your relationships (or wreck them)! #TimeIsRelative #PunctualityWars #ClockConfessions www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/w...
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Always Late? Blame Your Time Personality.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/07/2025
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee met in Paris this month to add to its list of cultural sites around the world deemed to be of “outstanding value to humanity.” The 26 new sites reflect the wide range encompassed by UNESCO’s criteria. @johnyangtv.bsky.social reports.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
One Chart #pbs
A United States Map that shows the regions that may lose PBS
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Another player in the #Robo #Taxi Market #Nuro has spent nearly a decade building an #AI-first autonomy system that’s safe, scalable, and vehicle-agnostic,” proven over five years of driverless deployments across multiple U.S. cities and states www.barrons.com/articles/luc...
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Lucid Takes On Tesla’s Robo-Taxis. Stock Jumps 50% on Self-Driving Partnership With Uber, Nuro.
Lucid, Uber, and Nuro announced a self-driving partnership to take on the likes of Waymo and Tesla.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
#Bitcoin, #XRP Price Gain as Genius Act Passes. Trump Has Big Plan for #Cryptos. "is preparing to sign an executive order as soon as this week to open up #401(k) plans to alternative investments, including cryptos, the Financial Times reported late Thursday" www.barrons.com/articles/bit...
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Bitcoin, XRP Price Gain as Genius Act Passes. Trump Has Big Plan for Cryptos.
Bitcoin price, XRP and other cryptos have seen big gains this week. The crypto industry notched its first major crypto regulatory win in the U.S. late Thursday.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Just talked to my #Oracle database in plain English and it actually understood me. The secret? Oracle #SQLcl 25.2's new #MCP server + #Cline AI assistant in #VS Code. medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
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Talk to Your Oracle Database with AI: Set Up Natural Language SQL in VS Code
Oracle’s latest SQLcl can be run as an MCP server fronting the database. In an ongoing series of blog posts, we explore what “talking to…
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
See if #FEMA thinks you are in a #flood zone msc.fema.gov/portal/search
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FEMA Flood Map Service Center | Search By Address
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Unlock the next era of enterprise app development—discover how #Oracle Database@AWS brings zero-ETL, AI-native features, and seamless #AWS integration to your development stack medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
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Oracle Database@AWS: A Developer’s Guide to the Game-Changing Integration
The recent announcement of Oracle Database@AWS represents more than just another cloud service launch — it’s a fundamental shift in how…
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Oracle Database@AWS bridges the gap between Oracle's database expertise and AWS's cloud infrastructure, enabling enterprises to modernize their database operations without sacrificing familiar Oracle capabilities or AWS cloud benefits. #Oracle #Database #AWS www.oracle.com/news/announc...
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b... #AI #Jobs #Tech
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Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced?
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
#Cloudflare's new setting empowering websites to block #AI data scraping without permission protects content creators' rights and incentivizes fair compensation for their work. www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-b...
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Cloudflare to block AI bot crawlers by default and let websites demand payment for access
Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Vehicle OS #AI #Auto www.appliedintuition.com
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Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition delivers the Vehicle OS, autonomy stacks, and toolchain that helps customers build richer, deeper AI-powered vehicle experiences.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#debt #gdp #budget
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#Hibernate just merged support for #Oracle #JSON datatype? Can’t wait to see this in a tagged release, and then in #Spring Boot 🔥 github.com/hibernate/hi...
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HHH-17404 : Add support of reading/writing from/to special source/target in FormatMapper by ejannett · Pull Request #9629 · hibernate/hibernate-orm
This PR brings code changes needed by HHH-17404. This adds the support of Oracle OSON (JSON binary format) to Hibernate allowing improved performance over JSON to String conversions. Two new types ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025
New in PN: A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows "When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated."
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A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows
The Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#oracle www.barrons.com/articles/ora...
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Oracle Stock Soars After New $30 Billion Cloud Deal
Oracle said the deal is expected to bring in more than $30 billion in annual revenue starting in fiscal 2028.
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Doug Drechsel @databasedoug.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The new Vera C. Rubin Telescope has some amazing tours skyviewer.app #Astronomy #Telescope
In this image of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas, clouds of hydrogen emit a pink glow while hot stars shine blue
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