Tag Archives: oracle

Custom vector distance functions in Oracle (using JavaScript)

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Mark Nelson

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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Getting started with Oracle Vector Store support in LangChain

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Mark Nelson

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

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Mark Nelson

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

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Mark Nelson

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 →

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Start up an Oracle Database in Kubernetes with Oracle REST Data Services and Database Actions in no time at all!

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Mark Nelson

Hi everyone! Today I want to show you how easy it is to get an instance of Oracle up and running in Kubernetes, with Oracle REST Data Services and Database Actions using the Oracle Database Operator for Kubernetes Let’s assume … Continue reading →

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New 23c version of Kafka-compatible Java APIs for Transactional Event Queues published

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Mark Nelson

We just published the new 23c version of the Kafka-compatible Java APIs for Transactional Event Queues in Maven Central, and I wanted to show you how to use them! If you are not familiar with these APIs – they basically … Continue reading →

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Spring Boot Starters for Oracle updated

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Mark Nelson

Hi everyone. We have just published some updates to the Spring Boot Starters for Oracle Database – we added a starter for UCP (Universal Connection Pool) for Spring 3.0.2. This makes it easy to access the Oracle Database from a … Continue reading →

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Oracle Backend for Spring Boot (and Parse Platform) introductory video plublished!

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Mark Nelson

We just published a short YouTube video that introduces the Oracle Backend for Spring Boot (and Parse Platform) which makes it super easy to develop, run and manage Spring Boot microservices and mobile applications leveraging all the power of Oracle’s … Continue reading →

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Big news today – Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release just released!

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Mark Nelson

Hi everyone! Big news today, just announced at Oracle CloudWorld in Singapore! The new Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is now available. Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is the first release of the next-generation Oracle Database, … Continue reading →

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I’m speaking at Level Up 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Mark Nelson

Hi! I am going to be speaking at the Level Up 2023 event at Oracle Redwood Shores in March. I will talking about our new Developer Previews for both Oracle Backend for Spring Boot and Oracle Backend for Parse Platform, … Continue reading →

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