Oracle stock has worst week since 2001 dot-com bust as AI financing concerns escalate

Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest drop since August 2001, the depths of the dot-com bust. The company's capital ...

Now we know how much Oracle shrank its staff in the past year — and how much it cost

Oracle carried out layoffs in March. A new filing shows how much smaller the workforce is compared to this time last year.
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Oracle cut 21,000 jobs this year and its SEC filing explicitly blames AI

Oracle shed 13% of its workforce while spending $55.7 billion on data centres. Its SEC filing explicitly cites AI adoption as the cause of job losses.

Jobs bloodbath at Oracle as 21,000 staff let go amid huge strategy pivot

The scale of the cuts was revealed in a regulatory filing Monday, showing Oracle’s workforce shrank from 162,000 full-time ...
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Working with JSON in Oracle APEX: Best Practices and Performance Optimization

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become the de facto standard for lightweight data exchange across applications, especially within modern web-based platforms. For Oracle APEX developers, JSON ...
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acquire_cpu_usage.sql

REM We can get "CPU Usage" from the metric_name "Host CPU Utilization (%)" of the view "DBA_HIST_SYSMETRIC_SUMMARY". REM Next we use the analytic function "LAG () OVER()" to get the prior snap_id from ...
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acquire_network_mbps.sql

REM We can get "Network MBPS" from the metric_name "Network Traffic Volume Per Sec" of the view "DBA_HIST_SYSMETRIC_HISTORY" REM or "DBA_HIST_SYSMETRIC_SUMMARY". REM Next we use the analytic function ...
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Avoiding TOO_MANY_ROWS errors in PL/SQL

Oracle’s PL/SQL language has two basic mechanisms for getting data from the database: SELECT and cursors. SELECT is designed to return a single row into local variables; cursors give you the ability ...