For more information on what’s new in Oracle Database 23.9, see: What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.9 Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 brings some fantastic new features to developers—again! This release has quite a broad spectrum of new features, some of which are near and dear to everyday developers, such as the SQL QUALIFY clause, and some of them help venture into new(er) avenues, such as GraphQL support.

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Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.8 images have now gone into Unsupported. See the support matrix for more information.

Filtering analytic functions was not straight-forward in Oracle and most other databases. Oracle 26ai now supports the QUALIFY clause in SQL. It works like a WHERE condition, but can be used for an…

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Larry Ellison announced Oracle AI Database 26ai  today in his keynote at Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas. And I am pretty certain you may want some clarification on what this means exactly.…

QUALIFY: filter rows based on window functions

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