The use case: Help Me Learn My New Car As much as folks are lamenting about the new cloud version of Oracle support, I have other issues on my mind- like trying to acclimate to my first electric vehicle, even though I already owned a gas-powered Mini Cooper. As I was looking for a good use case to test new vector search with Oracle 26ai, it occurred to me that I could use something better than a key word search when using the manual to my new car. What if I used the manual, which is public information and could…
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I’m doing a mid-year review and want to get better about blogging again. I did an initial AlloyDB Omni post this last week and it reminds me about the session I’ll be doing at PASS Community Summit with Steve Karam with PostgreSQL with PGVector! I know, you’re all really confused now- The SQL Server folks are thinking, “I thought she was Oracle??” The Oracle people are thinking I’m just not loyal because I keep working with other database platforms…:) One of the great things about this event is that it’s welcoming to so many technologies and database platforms. I’ve been…
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I’ve been intensely preparing the LinkedIn Learning Oracle 23c courses, set to film later this month. Despite my responsibilities as Director of Data and AI at Silk, I’m finalizing my Women in Tech presentation for SQL Saturday Jacksonville. The theme is Star Wars, so I used ChatGPT to generate a Princess Leia-inspired image and here’s what was returned: I grimaced, as my red flags went up. Why does she have wisps of hair across her face that’s out of place, yet her white dress is spotless? Does the open V at the chest serve as a target? Does the plate…
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One undeniable truth is that we often lean towards what’s familiar to us. Open-source solutions might be cost-effective and supported by their enthusiastic communities, but there’s a correlation between value and investment. Enterprise relational systems, backed by substantial licensing revenues, can afford to innovate and introduce advanced features—capabilities that sometimes surpass what open-source can offer. However, it’s essential to understand that not every application necessarily demands an enterprise-level relational database. Amidst the evolving narrative about AI/ML’s potential to replace our jobs and the rising prominence of object storage seemingly poised to replace traditional database systems, one principle remains: “We gravitate…
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It happens, someone has a good idea and unfortunately, theory is better than reality and it just creates more frustration than functionality. I’ve been wanting to blog about Technology gaffs for quite a while and I’ll put them in the category of rants, and hopefully folks can chime in with their own opinions… 🙂 for this week’s rant, I’ll discuss how LinkedIn, just like every other product in the friggin’ world, decided it needed to incorporate AI into their customer interface. For anyone wanting to post, you get the following opportunity to write a few ideas or prompts and AI…
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I’m back!! I know you missed my posts…be honest…. 🙂 So its time to start drinking from the fire hose and its important for me to go back to the very beginning, start from scratch and learn from A to Z. I learned Power BI on my own and there is undoubtedly pieces missing from my knowledge base that need to be filled in. No way I’d be able to spell if my A to Z alphabet was missing some vital letters, right pps, err, I mean peeps? What is Power BI? Power BI is Microsoft’s answer to how people…