Piet de Visser
@pdevisser.bsky.social
Database-guy, Typo-maker, Voyager. phd in I told you so, knighthood in... Airport Queues ? Get a motorcycle ! Movie Quotes: "You are a Meaningful and Valued member of ... " "Activate the Omega 13"
Time to level up your GUID usage. connor-mcdonald.com/2026/08/05/m...
More Gooey-ness from GUIDs
I wrote a post a few years back (well, actually it was 2018!) but I’ll paraphrase briefly. There are two common schools of thought when it comes to automatic generation of values for a surrog…
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There are those organizations that Know they have been hacked... And there are those that dont know, yet.
rm [-r] lininger@0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · last wk.I keep thinking about how OpenAI is a DoD vendor and a legit military target while we are in a war with a nation that has hackers and OpenAI has stated on the record that someone or something was aggressively hacking another US organization from their network… …and they didn’t notice for a week.
Colleague with coffeemug, doing some shoulder-surfing while I rapidly logon to various screens... "Hmm.. you are obsessed with that Polish Conference eh ? me: huh? him: your password, it is accidentally visible... Fr0mN!2POUG2026 #POUG2026
In case anyone needs another motivation to go to #HOUG. Motovun is right there as well. www.facebook.com/reel/1299794...
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(with relaxed thinking cap on) Code-generation is now so easy.. Any idiot can produce scripts or programs that do (approximately!) what he wants them to do. But who remembers: An extra Hour of Design, saves an Day of Programming. And a extra Day of Programming saves a Week of Testing?
Guy next to me is working on Train-the-Trainer-for-the-Train-the-Trainer-Training.... Recursive datamodel anyone ?
I went a bit OTT with my minimalistic-scripts to create a database. simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/07/draf... But it was Fun to tweak the scripts. I have a few more ideas, notes, suggestions. Maybe Later. First: I have a motorcycle to Ride.
Creating an Oracle 26ai database - Parameters and parameter-files.
TL;DR: The minimum amount of parameters for the init.ora when creating an Oracle 26ai database from scripts. Simple is better: I'll provide ...
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This .. Came back when I tried to demo something - Again. Put this in do_it.sh: sqlplus scott/tiger@orclpdb1<<EOF select 'no echo yet' as txt from dual ; set echo on select 'still no echo' as txt from dual; EOF Not the echo you expect ! Happens to me time + again...
Warm day, sitting in evening-shade. Just had a rabbit hopping up to me. At abt 2m it realized "oops, a human" and turned around....
After discussing with a colleague today. You only Really Learn a topic when you try to explain it to someone. (or when you try to write an exhaustive blog about it.. Fact-Check Everything, Verify, and Do Not Trust what you think you Know)
Sitting in a metal barn, just underneath that big red Thunderstorm area W of Middelburg. Noise ! But the wind and rain are very welcome after the heatwave-days we just had.
Still experimenting with "create database" scrips. Sometimes feels like LEGO., but I'm getting somewhere. /cc @oracleace.bsky.social #oracle26ai #scripting #cli simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/06/orac...
Oracle 26ai Create Scripts: Catalog and Components
TL;DR: The DBCA showed me how to add catalog, catproc, and various components. We are Getting Somewhere. I'll try to make those scripts more...
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Still trying to create a database from scripts... simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/06/expe... @oracleace.bsky.social #Oracle26ai #DBCA #CLI Mainly just having fun, but I did (re)learn a few things. Not finished yet.
Experimenting with DBCA-scripts of Oracle 26ai: Create Database.
TL;DR: I've got generated scripts from DBCA (see previous blogs) , and I experiment with them. First I morf the initial Create-statement an...
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Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
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Had Good Fun examining and tweaking the (DBCA-generated) scripts to create a database... #oracle26ai #DBCA #CLI /cc @oracleace.bsky.social Curious: Anyone still using those script? Any preference for scripts over Templates ? simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/06/orac...
Oracle 26ai DBCA scripts that (help you to) create a database
TL;DR: Still on my quest to Create an Oracle 26ai Database From Scripts. I'll examine some of the resulting scripts from DBCA. Image: Critic...
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Oracle 26ai: The "Assistant" is still alive and clicking. Before you ask some random LLM, visit this legacy-assistant. It has been there since the dawn of time, check out that X11 UI... #Oracle26ai simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/06/crea...
Creating a Database: Ask DBCA to help you...
TL;DR: The scripts generated by DBCA work, although some tweaks and caveats apply. But in the end: Yes. They Work! image: Startup of the DBC...
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Good fun with Scripts. Very Simple Scripts... Mixed results so far, but Interesting, and Fun. #Oracle26ai simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/06/crea...
Create an Oracle 26ai database, from minimalistic script (maybe dont)
TL;DR: My Minimalistic script to create a database Worked, sortof (link to previous blog) . Now let me Examine the first results and make so...
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I'm playing with scripts again... Old hobby project of mine: Create a Database with just scripts. This time using #Oracle26ai. simpleoracledba.blogspot.com/2026/06/crea... (are there any script-jockeys left out there who still do this?)
Creating an Oracle 26ai Database from Scratch using scripts
TL;DR: I want Scripts. Hence I am going to try and create an Oracle 26ai database purely using scripts. Specifically not recovering any temp...
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Another way to detect that an IT bubble is bursting: the type of (sales)ppl that jump on the bandwagon, those that always join a little too late but are Religious Believers anyway... Soon you'll hear: "Oh, you are still vibe-coding...??" (from the same crowd...)
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3mo agoStarbucks is abruptly scrapping its AI inventory tool for repeatedly miscounting and mislabeling items, just months after rolling it out at stores nationwide. It's the latest warning that the widely-hyped "AI revolution" could be a bubble that's going to burst.
+/-2009: Q: Do you use any Green practices in your job ? Answ: Yes, I try to make systems run Efficiently, so we need less hardware + less power. FF to 2026: bsky.app/profile/pbsn... I suspect lack of power may stop the AI madness.... But When ? The Future is to those who run Efficiently...
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3mo agoNevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n
If you think nobody understands your datamodel.. Then maybe, you are the one who does not understand your colleages, Business or IT. (Everything is a Document, and why can we not store cstmr-address at every order-line-item...?)
I am Jean-Marc van Tol, cartoonist of the popular Dutch cartoon series Fokke & Sukke. We have created our own Cozy Coloring Book. Tomorrow (6-5-2026) we will appear on a Dutch television programme, Tijd voor Max, to talk about this book and the worldwide hype around cozy coloring.
