Oracle’s MCP Servers for the Oracle AI Database: the Movie
I’ve been presenting a version of this content since last June when we launched SQLcl as a local, STDIO MCP Server. Not sure what that means? Watch the video! And then we added support for Cloud, and...
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How to connect to your OCI Oracle Database via SQLcl
What if connecting to your Oracle Cloud Oracle AI Databases was as simple as – SQL> connect "My Cloud Database" This isn’t a ‘WHAT IF’ – it’s a reality! And not only that, this works across all...
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How to compare two Oracle Database schemas with SQLcl
I have two environments: HR123 – I started a bare bones schema with just two tables, and no comments, indexes, constraints, etc HR456 – I had Codex help me generate what a real HR system should look...
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Fine-grained AI Enrichment for Oracle Database via MCP
Oracle SQLcl version 26.1 came out last week. Download Release Notes From the release notes, we have this nugget – Schema-information tool now supports filtering and ability to retrieve details for...
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Agents Skills: load CSV to new Oracle tables via SQLcl MCP
Anthropic introduced Agent Skills awhile back, and I’ve neglected to jump into that area of AI, until today. The concept is open sourced and not exclusive to Anthropic of Claude, you can see the...
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Options for our local Oracle Database MCP Server in VS Code
We’ve released an update for our SQL Developer Extension for VS Code, version 25.4.1 [changeLog]. When you pickup a new extension update, you may run into issues with our MCP Server. Let’s talk about...
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Did you know? Summarizing latest & greatest MCP updates.
We host monthly (2nd Tuesday) news updates, covering features and enhancements released for both our AI Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Today we welcomed about 400 folks and did a wrap...
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Your favorite Oracle database CLI and MCP just got updated
Oracle SQLcl version 25.4 is now available for download. Download the Zip Release notes But practically, what’s it really mean for me? I’m chatting with my Oracle AI Lakehouse (or data warehouse), and...
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Asking AI to generate test data, more is better
More is better. But more of what, exactly? I’d rather have more test data than less, say 100 rows of data in my table versus 3. Wait, why exactly is a bunch of data better than a little? ‘it...
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Insights & FAQS from speaking to folks re: our MCP Server
Kris and I have recently had the privilege (and a lot of fun!) of interacting with thousands of people. Talking, listening, and sharing about our MCP Server technology! If this post is the moment...
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Coding React Apps with Oracle Database MCP & Claude Sonnet 4
I have an Oracle Database, and in that database, I have some data that contains some of my historical music streaming history. Can I build a Summary Dashboard via a React Web app? Of course you can....
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Getting Started with our MCP Server for Oracle Database
This is going to be a long post, with lots of details. Things that don’t fit well on a corporate blog post, our docs, in a video, or even on powerpoint slides. TL;DR your AI assistants can now interact...
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Getting started with Oracle Database CI/CD & SQLcl Projects
Problem: we need to implement changes to our database schemas in an orderly and controlled manner, just like we would for our application code. Solution: using Oracle’s free SQLcl Project feature to...
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SQLcl Projects: Automating Oracle Database app deployments
Just press the tab key for help! If you’ve visited my blog before, you’ve likely seen several posts here on a similar topic, Liquibase. Several years ago we enhanced that open source library to make...
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Connecting to Oracle using VS Code & Kerberos Auth
Disclaimer #1: I’m not a ‘Kerberos Guy,’ and I’m sharing the work of others. I can however explain the mechanics and demonstrate what your rig should look like to get this working. Disclaimer #2: This...
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Example: Loading Chicago Crime Data (CSV) with SQLcl
I learn things like most of you: reading (blogs!) doing the thing and most likely by doing the thing I read about in a blog I’ve been trying to keep up with AI Vector Search in 23ai (yes, I am but a...
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Oracle SQLcl 24.4.1 available with Excel & Access imports
Version 24.4.1 is now available for download. Download Release Notes You can now see your Connection Names in the Status Bar! The statusbar at the bottom, is showing my line#:curpos | connected user |...
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Copying VS Code Developer Tools connections to SQL Developer
How to migrate your Oracle Developer Tools VS Code Extension connections over to the SQL Developer Extension – with a single bash command, and then some SQLcl connects! You may have noticed the...
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Let’s build a mini-changeLog for Oracle using SQLcl.
I’m going to give my friend 4 files, that they can take and create in their Oracle Database, a an ITUNES table populated with about ~5k of my songs and a dumb little REST API But wait, what’s the 4th...
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SQLcl 24.2 Quick Hit: Generating AWR Reports
A new feature for SQLcl 24.2 is the ability to interact with Oracle’s Automatic Workload Repository, also known as AWR. This is an Enterprise Edition (EE) licensed feature requiring the Diagnostic...
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