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Jeff Smith
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A product manager for Oracle Database, specializing in database developer productivity. Blogs @ https://www.thatjeffsmith.com

🌟 SQL
⭕ Oracle
📊 Databases
🏋️‍♂️ Weights, poorly
🥃 Bourbon
🕸️ REST API
🙊 Product Manager
🤘 80's hair metal fan
remember, the purpose of this resource is for folks learning sql, how to build apps/use oracle db - not for the aspiring dba

pretend you are a dba, and a fresher/intern asked for an account on one of your databases, what privs would you give them?

We probably have given you more.
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
That's means its approximately 10x easier/faster today than it was yesterday to get started using/learning Oracle, databases, sql, and in general, data management.
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Birds at the beach
September 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Asked and answered, can i have a KB shortcut for 'goto declaration' in VS Code (and our SQL Developer extension), YES

Easily navigate to dictionary objects from your pl/sql or sql code, mouse or no mouse your choice.

#oracle #database
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Clicking the 'edit in settings' hyperlinked text takes me to

Settings with this filter/search applied
"sqldeveloper.connections.tnsConfiguration.path"
September 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Gave the cousins a bath
September 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
How did this only sell 6 million copies?
August 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Official announcement/introduction to our MCP Server for Oracle Database

blogs.oracle.com/database/pos...
July 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Now playing
July 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Agent mode upgraded with an MCP Server for Oracle Database, yes please!

oracle.com/sqlcl
July 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Claude is smart enough to know I didn't run that many miles, so it did some maths based on the elapsed time per run I had recorded in my oracle database table, and decided (CORRECTLY) that Strava uses METERS

And i just told it to look in my fun database and figure out how many miles I've ran...
July 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In 3 hours @krisrice.io and I will brief you on what we've been working on and released yesterday...

Sign-up here
go.oracle.com/LP=148902?el...

The LLMs are good at answering your questions, but also adding context, finding things I might miss.

An MCP Server for the Oracle Database.
July 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
we have an official MCP Server for Oracle Database as of...today
July 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I don't only buy things on Insta for myself, I also spoil my teenagers.
June 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Father's day sorted
June 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Terminal (CLI) life can be pleasant, if not enjoyable! #Oracle gives you what you need, and then some.
June 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Will get Search sorted, and the typo

You can share, there's an EZ Code to the right on each page
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ouch
May 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Do you like this @vscode.dev debugger option?
May 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Someone at my gym must be the happiest man alive
April 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Updated my Getting Started tutorial!

Story link in thread.
April 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Did you know?

You can search the contents of your Oracle Database, directly from our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console?

A free offering found under Developer Services!

Learn more:
www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025...
March 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy Friday / weekend!
March 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Had to refrain from picking up more at the flea market this weekend.
March 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM