Our other publications
Building a Custom BPM Worklist, Oracle InSync 2011 User Group presentation
Performance Tuning for Oracle Business Process Management Suite 10g, Oracle Whitepaper, July 2011
Performance Tuning for Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g, Oracle Whitepaper, February 2013
Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics, Packt Publishing, September 2012
Fusion Middleware 12.1.2: Developing Applications with Continuous Integration
Fusion Middleware 12.1.3: Developing Applications with Continuous Integration
Author Archives: Mark Nelson
Using Reflection to Help LLMs Write Better SQL
Getting LLMs to write good SQL can be tricky. Sure, they can generate syntactically correct queries, but do those queries actually answer the question you asked? Sometimes an LLM might give you technically valid SQL that doesn’t quite capture what … Continue reading
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Using Multiple Datasources with Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA
Hi everyone! Today I want to show you how to configure multiple datasources in a Spring Boot application using Spring Data JPA and the Oracle Spring Boot Starter for Universal Connection Pool (UCP). This is a pattern you’ll need when … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, data-source, Java, spring-boot, technology, tutorial, UCP
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Custom vector distance functions in Oracle (using JavaScript)
In case you missed it, Oracle Database 26ai was announced last week at Oracle AI World, with a heap of new AI features and capabilities like hybrid vector search, MCP server support, acceleration with NVIDIA and much more – check … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, jaccard, javascript, llm, mle, oracle, rag, technology, vector-search
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Let’s make a simple MCP tool for Oracle AI Vector Search
In this earlier post, we created a vector store in our Oracle Database 23ai and populated it with some content from Moby Dick. Since MCP is very popular these days, I thought it might be interesting to look how to … Continue reading
Exploring securing vector similarity searches with Real Application Security
In this post, I want to explore how you can use Real Application Security to provide access controls for vectors in a vector store in Oracle Database 23ai. I’m going to use the vector store we created in the last … Continue reading
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Basic Retrieval Augmented Generation with Oracle Vector Store in LangChain
In this earlier post, we learned how to create a Vector Store in Oracle from LangChain, the hugely popular Python library for working with Generative AI and Large Language Models. We populated it with a little data and then performed … Continue reading
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Getting started with Oracle Vector Store support in LangChain
In this post, I would like to show you the basics of how to use the Oracle Vector Store support in LangChain. I am using Visual Studio Code with the Python and Jupyter extensions from Microsoft installed. I will show … Continue reading
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Running Oracle Autonomous Database in a container
Did you know that you can easily run Oracle Autonomous Database in a container on your local machine? This is a great for development. It’s totally free, and you don’t even need to authenticate to pull the image. It also … Continue reading
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How to read the content of a JMS message using PL/SQL
This is just a short post – but all the details are in this post from Rob Van Wijk. Today I wanted to read the contents of a JMS Text Message sitting in a queue. I wrote a Spring Boot … Continue reading
Vote for my session at VMWare Explore (Spring track)!
Vote for my People’s Choice Session “Experiences and lessons learnt building a multi-cloud #SpringBoot backend (ID 2002)” to be featured at #VMwareExplore 2023 Las Vegas! Place your vote by May 26: https://lnkd.in/eiRi-YF7 Register for VMWare Explore here. Learn more about Oracle Backend for Spring Boot … Continue reading
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