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Peter O'Brien @pobalopalous

A wanderer with a purpose

Joined May 2009
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🕵️‍♂️ Got inactive Oracle DB accounts lurking in your system? With Unified Audit Policy, you can identify users that haven’t logged in for X days — even REST-enabled schemas accessed via ORDS. Full guide 👉 peterobrien.blog/2025/10/15/… #Oracle #ORDS #26ai #UnifiedAuditing

Find those unused Oracle Database Accounts (Easily!)

Effective management of Oracle database accounts is crucial for security, particularly identifying inactive accounts. Traditional queries like DBA_USERS are insufficient as they fail to account for…

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🚀 Faster Database Authentication with Oracle 23ai ORDS 25.3.0 Real-world tests show Basic Authentication response times cut by over 60% ⚡️ See the before/after data and what changed 👉 peterobrien.blog/2025/10/09/… #OracleRESTDataServices #23ai #Performance #AutonomousDatabase
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Making concert event data from the ORDS Sample Application accessible to AI agents like Claude Desktop. Full handler code, OAuth2 security, and testing tips inside. 🔗 peterobrien.blog/2025/08/16/… #Oracle23ai #OracleRESTDataServices #JavaScript #MCP #Claude
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Chat with your Oracle databases securely…key feature called out in the article: “The feature is architected for secure, context-aware communication between AI agents and enterprise data.”
Oracle AI Database
@OracleDatabase
31 Jul 2025
"Oracle’s MCP Server revolutionizes AI-driven database interactions. It works with any supported Oracle Database—from 19c to 23ai—and can be used on-premises, in hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, Google, and OCI—and even on the laptop. All Oracle Database users should give it a try to chat with their database, generate reports and perform operations such as Data Load and Data Transform." Read the HyperFRAME Research article: social.ora.cl/6015friFv
Oracle’s MCP Server: A New Paradigm for Database-AI Interaction

ALT Oracle’s MCP Server: A New Paradigm for Database-AI Interaction
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Oracle AI Database
@OracleDatabase
30 Jul 2025
Oracle’s MCP Server for Database is part of Oracle’s strategy to aggressively drive AI capabilities into its database products. It’s an approach that allows customers to leverage existing infrastructure while addressing enterprise security concerns and accelerating adoption. social.ora.cl/6018fueHk
Research Note: Oracle Introduces MCP Server for Oracle Database

ALT Research Note: Oracle Introduces MCP Server for Oracle Database

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that Jeff Smith
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10 Jul 2025
'using my fun database, can you tell me how many miles i have ran?' With MCP Server for @OracleDatabase avail 4 Cline, the Claude LLM can try to figure that out. I WILL be reviewing everything this Agent does on my behalf, but also my 'fun' connection is locked down.
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Beginning with ORDS version 25.1.0, the "ords-developer" image is deprecated. The "ords" image has changed substantially now. However, it is still the image that is supported for production use. Please read this document to learn the latest changes. container-registry.oracle.co…
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ORDS 25.1.0 is out! Check out the role based access control with OAuth2 JWT Profile feature that makes integration with your existing identity provider even easier. oracle.com/rest
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Good, practical, tips on effective ci/cd pipelines
Martin Bach@MartinDBA
25 Mar 2025
DevOps is widely adopted, yet developers still hesitate to apply its principles to their data stores. But there's no need for that—Database CI/CD is a reality. Take a look at this tech brief to learn how you can integrate your database into CI/CD pipelines oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/datab…
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🚀 Bring AutoREST to #MySQL, #PostgreSQL, #SQLServer, #DB2 & more with a custom #OracleRESTDataServices plugin! No install needed—just a JDBC driver. 💡🔌 👉 Build it yourself: peterobrien.blog/2025/03/09/… #NoInstallRequired #PluginExample #RESTAPI #Database

Universal RESTful Database Access

The ORDS JDBC AutoREST Plugin connects Oracle REST Data Services to multiple databases including DB/2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server without requiring individual installations. It generates RES…

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Import @OracleAPEX applications with your choice of workspace, alias, and even Application ID. All from SQLcl command line…
Neil Fernandez@neilbfernandez
7 Mar 2025
SQLcl Projects has been taking off and hopefully this helps answer some questions on configurable APEX deployments! SQLcl Projects - Using Liquibase properties to modify your APEX installation blog.neilfernandez.com/sqlcl… #orclAPEX #sqlcl
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If you run @OracleREST on @OracleCloud then you'll find this "Building scalable Oracle ORDS Deployment with ETCD and OKE" post by our very own Hamid Idifi very interesting medium.com/p/building-scalab…
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Game changer: maintaining an Oracle Database transaction over multiple sessions (or REST API requests!) with Database 23ai. thatjeffsmith.com/archive/20…

Sessionless Transactions in Database 23ai & your REST APIs

With the latest innovations in Oracle 23ai, you can now work with an Oracle session transaction over MULTIPLE HTTPS REST API calls! Here's a demo with ORDS.

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Remember, at the end of this year ( only 13 days away ) any version of Oracle REST Data Services ( ORDS ) older than 18 months will not be supported… oracle.com/tools/ords/suppor… For example: ORDS 23.2 was released in July 2023 and will not be supported in 2025. #Upgrade
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