Priit Piipuu
@ppiipuu.bsky.social
Beer, danmei, databases, SFF, wǔxiá, Oracle ACE Pro
The databases' trade-offs are fascinating. Is the unique index key truly unique within the B-tree? How do they handle temporary violations during large updates? Can they ignore them until the end? Can they report which key value was a duplicate? dev.to/franckpachot...
Following ROWIDs Through an Oracle Unique Index Update
I've always been amazed by how Oracle Database handles updates to a unique column—performing...
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Robert Smith 1982
Alt: Robert Smith 1982 quietly smiling and letting out a laugh
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Panny@panny.bsky.social · 2w agoI see Morrisey's name coming up again. Robert Smith said "I went to a party and Morrisey was there, so I punched him on the arm and he started crying". Be more Robert Smith.
Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor -- maintained entirely by humans. vim-classic.org
Stonebraker is not happy with existing Text2SQL tooling: cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-...
If You Think You Can Do Real-World Text-to-SQL – Communications of the ACM
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There’s static SQL and dynamic SQL, but in between there’s also SQL that’s “dynamic at parse-time,” known as polymorphic (meaning it can change “shape”.) This talk, run by @kibeha.dk, looks at different ways to achieve this. #POUG2026 last 11 tickets: poug.org/edycja/poug2...
3 months ago I published my book "Deep dive into a SQL query" (leanpub.com/deep-dive-in...), and probably the text that explain better what is the target audience is the foreword from @franckpachot.bsky.social, so I'll just share it here:
“Here he comes, Earl. … Remember, be gentle but firm … we are absolutely, positively, NOT driving him south this winter.”
In medieval times, a suit of armor often served as a family’s message center.
“I lift, you grab. … Was that concept just a little too complex, Carl?”
This session gives lots of interesting knowledge about an allegedly boring topic - Constraints. And this knowledge will give you the power to optimize and make better decisions. Please welcome @OrenNakdimon to the #POUG2026 gang! See you in September: poug.org/edycja/poug2...
SpaceX has now round-tripped back to its IPO price in less than 30 days. If you got in on the deal, you’re now flat. If you didn’t, you missed nothing. And if you bought the opening pop, welcome to The Muppet Show.
This is not a regular session. Attendees will leave with a working mental model and concrete scripts to reuse in their own environments to implement database-native event propagation. Don't miss @jasminfluri.bsky.social 's session at #POUG2026! poug.org
The Swiss (sort-of) empanada has got to be among the all-time worst-named foods
Cholera (food) - Wikipedia
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Space Karen running foul of the Stefan-Boltzmann law isn't the only funny thing with space computing spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data...
The Real Cost Of Cooling GPUs In Space Might Shock You
Shedding heat will require ingenious new designs
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“Good heavens, John! Call someone! ... The entire basement looks dry!”
Temperatures are rising—it’s time to break a sweat behind your screen again. The nlOUG selection committee working hard, preparing an exciting DB World programme featuring Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and AI. Mark your calendar: Friday, 13 November. You won’t want to miss it!
“Wait a minute! Say that again, Doris! … You know, the part about ‘If only we had some means of climbing down.’”
These sour things are usually not my favs, but this works quite well on hot summer day
Luposlipaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.
A reminder to presenters. Presenting in dark mode, (whether slides, browsers, VSCode, etc) is almost always unreadable in the room. Switch to light mode. Your attendees Will thank you. #kscope26 #presenting #readability
Grog Schwartz eats some bad beetle grubs, and the art of dance is born.
