Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
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Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
1w ago
I’ve written a few blog posts about the new Select AI feature on the Oracle Database. In this post, I’ll explore how to use this within APEX, because you have to do things in a different way. The previous posts on Select AI are: We have seen in my previous posts how the PL/SQL package ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
2w ago
Continuing with the exploration of Select AI, in this post I’ll look at how metadata can help. In my previous posts on Select AI, I’ve walked through examples of exploring the data in the SH schema and how you can use some of the conversational features. These really give a lot of potential for developing ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
3w ago
In a previous post, I introduced Select AI and gave examples of how to do some simple things. These included asking it using some natural language questions, to query some data in the Database. That post used both Cohere and OpenAI to process the requests. There were mixed results and some gave a different, somewhat ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
1M ago
Oracle released Select AI a few months ago, and with any new product it is always a good idea to give it a little time to fix any “bugs” or “features”. To a certain extent, the release of this capability is a long time behind the marketplace. Similar products have been available in different ways ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
1M ago
It feels like we’ve been hearing about and talking about the EU AI Act for a very long time now. But on Wednesday 13th March 2024, the EU Parliament finally voted to approve the Act. While this is a major milestone, we haven’t crossed the finish line. There are a few steps to complete, although ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
1M ago
To access and use the Generative AI features in the Oracle Database you’ll need access to the API of a LLM. In this post, I’ll step through what you need to do to get API keys from Cohere and OpenAI. These are the two main LLMs for use with the database and others will be ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
1M ago
With the current early release, there is no way to organise your Database connections like you can in the full Oracle SQL Developer. We are told this will/might be possible in a future release but it might be later this year (or longer) before that feature will be available. In a previous post, I showed ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
1M ago
Over the past decade, we have been hearing the call of the Cloud, from various vendors. The Cloud has provided a wonderful technology shift in the wider IT industry and accelerated the introduction of new technologies and more efficient ways of doing things. There were a lot of promises made or implied in migrating to ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
2M ago
I mentioned in my previous post about importing your SQL Developer connections into the VS Code Extension. The following are the steps you need to complete. A more direct method to import directly from SQL Developer will be available in an upcoming extension update. To complete this migration of your database connects, you’ll need to ..read more
Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog
2M ago
We now have a new/different tool for developers to access their Oracle Databases. Traditionally, developers have been using Oracle SQL Developer for maybe 20+ years (if you started using Project Raptor). SQL Developer has developed into a bit of a big beast of a tool, with it trying to be everything to everyone including developers ..read more