Do you know? Summarizing the latest reports & greatest MCP updates.

We have a monthly news update (2nd Tuesday), which includes features and enhancements released for AI Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Today we welcomed around 400 people and completed the MCP. By the way, you can find previous recordings here. I thought I’d highlight today’s update by diving deeper now. SQLcl -R, level limiting…

How to Conduct a Thematic Analysis (2025 Guide)

Thematic analysis is one of the most popular ways to analyze qualitative data—such as interview transcripts, focus groups, or open-ended survey responses. This helps you find patterns (themes) across your data and tell meaningful stories. In 2025, thematic analysis has not changed in essence, but is new AI tools and digital workflows making it faster…

LaunchPod: Using AI to Preserve 140 Years of History at the LA Times

LaunchPod is a product management podcast hosted by LogRocket’s VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, where he talks with product leaders about the problems they’ve faced in their careers, how they found solutions to those problems, and how you can apply these solutions in your day-to-day product role. In this episode, Deepika Manglani, VP of Product…

Working with tables in Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code

My first Middle Eastern sunset, Doha Qatar I started this post in Qatar waiting for my connection to Hyderabad. My goal is to publish 7 blog posts in 7 days, and share some personal/travel stuff along with the technical content you usually see here. Today’s article is a short article, around one of our newest…

Everything You Need to Know About Factor Analysis of Likert Scale Data: Metrics and Thresholds

If you’ve ever collected survey data using likert scale (e.g., “Strongly Disagree” → “Strongly Agree”), you might be wondering: Do my questions really measure what I think? It’s here factor analysis enter. This is a statistical tool that checks whether your survey items are grouped into meaningful groups (called factor). For example, ten questions about…

Shadcn UI adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives

Editor’s note: This article was reviewed and updated by Elijah Asoula in February 2026 to improve technical accuracy and reflect recent updates to the Shadcn UI ecosystem. Updates include coverage of Shadcn Create, blocks and Lift mode, revised use cases, and updated comparisons with other UI and component libraries. Shadcn UI takes a different approach…

Handling TNS database connections with Oracle MCP (SQLcl)

Having trouble with your AI Agent and running an Oracle Database connection with our SQLcl MCP Server? It might look like this – What happened? SQLcl can connect, and so can my SQL Developer VS Code extension??? The problem is that local MCP Servers appear in private environments, they do NOT inherit your system or…

How to Code and Analyze Multiple Response Questions in Excel

When can respondents vote more than one answer (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, TikTok), the data doesn’t fit neatly in one column. Instead, you should do it restructuring, coding, and summarizing correctly to gain meaningful insights. Here’s how to do it. Step 1: Enter and Code Data There are two common ways to set up multiple response…

Komponen cache di Next.js: Halaman lebih cepat dengan pra-render sebagian

Kinerja rendering dalam aplikasi web seringkali dibatasi oleh pekerjaan server yang tidak dapat diselesaikan secara instan. Pengambilan data, personalisasi, dan agregasi backend semuanya membutuhkan waktu. Di banyak aplikasi, pekerjaan ini memblokir seluruh halaman, meninggalkan pengguna dengan layar kosong hingga semuanya selesai. Next.js secara tradisional menangani ini melalui model statis secara default. Rute bersifat statis atau…

Hello Hyderabad, Bengaluru, & Mumbai! See you next week!

I will be joining the aioug and Oracle AI World Tour in February 2026. This will be my first trip to India, so I am very excited to see this amazing part of the world. Details I’ll discuss how to get the best Agentic AI experience from your Oralce AI Database and an overview of…