Martin Bach

👉 Assertions 👉 Foreign keys Two constraints Oracle AI Database offers to enforce one or more matching child rows for every parent row. @chrisrsaxon gives us a detailed breakdown: social.ora.cl/6016BDlnZq

📣 @OracleSQLDev 26.2 is now available for download. oracle.com/database/sqlde… This may be the last time I announce a release for this product. As you know, we are transitioning over to our VS Code extension. Long live the king!

Congrats to the 2026–2027 Oracle ACE Program members! 🥳 Learn more about this year's members and how their passion for sharing knowledge, supporting the community, and helping others succeed continues to make a difference across the Oracle ecosystem. social.ora.cl/6013BDcjcB

We have a fresh release of utPLSQL framework for you.

With Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory and Exadata Database Service for Developer, we're offering a practical path for teams to build, test, and validate enterprise-grade agentic applications on Exadata infrastructure without Oracle Database license costs for development and testing. Learn more: social.ora.cl/6010BDGJRq

ORDS isn't just for REST APIs or APEX anymore. It's now available as an MCP Server for your @OracleDatabase ! thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2026/0…

FreeSQL is the easiest way to get started with Oracle SQL, PL/SQL & JavaScript. All you need is a browser. 🖥️ It's also behind the new interactive "Run" buttons in the Oracle AI Database 26ai docs. Curious? More details 👇 martincarstenbach.com/2026/07/01/ora…

Congratulations to the 2026–2027 Oracle ACE Program members! Learn more about this year's members whose passion for sharing knowledge, supporting the community, and helping others succeed continues to inspire. social.ora.cl/6010BDsczG

After introducing the modern AI development stack for data-centric apps it was time to put that stack to good use: analysing workloads captured in AWR reports. Does a coding agent understand them? Find out more 👉 martincarstenbach.com/2026/06/26/rea… #AI #Oracle #Performance #AWR

Found another practical use case for AI: help me fix the discrepancy between inline code and regular text on my blog. Took me 2 minutes to fix what would otherwise meant a lot of internet searching 🎉

The #orclAPEX Developer’s Companion is a practical guide to building trusted enterprise apps. Learn all aspects of APEX: data, UX, search, security, integration, files, APIs, reporting, translation, automation, workflow, and AI for users. Learn more at social.ora.cl/6011BDPXEB #LowCode

The Doc and Grammar for @OracleAPEX Lang is now live. This can now be used for agentic development directly on the language. Build a linter, build a generator, build a security scanner. The grammar enables everything. linkedin.com/posts/krisrice…

Once again, up early at #kscope26 - but not prepping my demo, as it's ready to go! See you at "APEXlang Deep Dive" at 9:30a in Red Rocks 9. I'll show you how to get started with APEXlang and provide some tips + tricks. #orclapex

Part 6 in our Oracle AI Database Skills series focuses on retrieval: how to store vectors, choose HNSW or IVF, and write hybrid queries you can defend in a review meeting. social.ora.cl/6012B8bYHE

🛠️ Oracle APEX 26.1 Patch Set Bundle 1 is available! Learn More: social.ora.cl/6012BD1nry Known Issues: social.ora.cl/6015BD1nrz #orclAPEX

I wrote a thing on LinkedIn linkedin.com/pulse/1-mcp-se…

Explore what AI Agents are, how the underlying concepts of agentic AI, function calling, and the agent loop fit together, and how Oracle APEX makes these capabilities practical for everyday developers. #orclAPEX social.ora.cl/6018B8b028

I didn’t know this existed 😁

Don’t let database startup delays break your CI pipeline. I wrote a short post how to use health checks in Docker and Podman to ensure database dependent calls don’t fail unnecessarily: martincarstenbach.com/2026/06/10/usi…

Python-oracledb 4.0 is a major step forward for developers building modern, secure, AI-powered Python applications on Oracle AI Database. 🙌 Learn more 👇 social.ora.cl/6014B8bLKe