Look video of this post here. Over the past 30 years, the purchasing power of the US Consumer Dollar has halved due to inflation. At the same time, the S&P 500 has risen 828% (7.7% annually) AFTER adjusting for inflation. Why you need to invest for the long term, in one chart… At Creative Planning, … [Read more…]
My first Middle Eastern sunset, Doha Qatar I started this post in Qatar waiting for my connection to Hyderabad. My goal is to publish 7 blog posts in 7 days, and share some personal/travel stuff along with the technical content you usually see here. Today’s article is a short article, around one of our newest … [Read more…]
We have released an update to the SQL Developer Extension for VS Code, version 25.4.1 [changeLog]. When you download the new extension update, you may experience problems with our MCP Server. Let’s discuss what happens and how you can avoid it. You have two main options to make our SQLcl MCP server available to the … [Read more…]
Today’s post was inspired by Karin’s LiveLab demonstrating Property Graphs. You can see it here. If you choose to run this lab ‘on your own’, you will be given several CSV files to contain two tables. You can now do this in VS Code with our SQL Developer extension! Alternatively, you can right-click the Tables … [Read more…]
Starting today, the support window for Oracle SQL Developer version 24.3 has been updated to April 2027. Source: We’re also looking at a minor update to the current 24.3.1 offering that will address some third-party libraries that need to be updated along with the embedded Java home. However, there are no new features planned for … [Read more…]
We want AI, we want it now! This is not LLM hallucination or wishful thinking on the part of AI vendors. Every day I talk to companies large and small, asking for guidance on how to ‘best’ implement Agentic AI across the business for their databases. This week Oracle enabled a new path to do … [Read more…]
Not everyone can download their favorite VS Code extensions from the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace. We now also offer extension packages from Oracle.com, such as the one we have for SQL Developer. You can now get individual VSIX distributions from our SQL Developer extension for VS Code Download page! The license is FUTC, so no … [Read more…]
Anthropic introduced Agent Skills a while ago, and I forgot to dive into that field of AI, until today. The concept is open source and not exclusive to Anthropic of Claude, you can see the details in What you will see below done in Claude Desktop. But first, I want to thank my dear friend … [Read more…]
Look video of this post here. This week’s post is sponsored by Y Chart. By early May, advisors were already answering clients’ mid-year questions: How is it tracking? What should we change? YCharts helps you answer in real-time with fast portfolio analysis, performance comparisons, and client-ready charts – without rebuilding everything from scratch. It can … [Read more…]
Hot off the presses as of THIS morning – We now have a lot of new skills available to work on all kinds of different types of tasks around our Oracle databases. The categories include – Category Files Path Database Design & Modeling 4 skills/design/ SQL Development 5 skills/sql-dev/ Performance & Tuning 7 skills/performance/ Application … [Read more…]