Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.8 images have now gone into Unsupported. See the support matrix for more information.

Oracle Database 23.9 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.7 images have now gone into Unsupported. See the support matrix for more information.

SQL is a declarative, English-like domain language for querying, analyzing, and manipulating data. SQL originated from relational databases but has since seen wide adoption outside of them. Because SQL statements can almost be read as English sentences and its declarative nature, that is, users declare what results they want and not how to get to these results (the latter is the approach of imperative programming languages, such as C, Java, Python, etc), SQL is generally seen as one of the best high-level languages for analyzing data due to its easy-to-learn syntax.

Oracle Database 23.6 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free.

The agenda of the Database Circle Conference 2024, hosted in the Oracle office at The Circle in Zurich on 30-31 January 2024.

My thoughts and rants about what's happening with Twitter (X) and where you can find me online these days. TL;DR I'm not leaving, yet.