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Scott Spendolini

@sspendolAustin, TXJoined October 2022

Senior Director @ Oracle

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Senior Director @ Oracle 🧑‍💻
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SSScott Spendolinispendolini.blogSep 25 · 4 min read

The spec is the... Hypothesis?

In his article, “DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs”, Unmesh Joshi argues that specifications are hypotheses rather than finished blueprints. That perspective contrasts with the many people touting the

SSScott Spendolinispendolini.blogMar 20 · 5 min read

Surfacing Invisible Business Rules with SQL Assertions & AI

I saw Dimitri's post on SQL Assertions today and it piqued my curiosity. Putting more business rules closer to data is almost always a great idea, as you can now call DML from any technology and rest

SSScott Spendolinispendolini.blogSep 15, 2025 · 2 min read

Second Time Around

Almost 20 years ago to the date, I submitted my resignation to Oracle to go start my own company. It was a difficult decision to make, as APEX - or HTML DB as it was called then - was just starting to gain traction. However, I was presented with an o...

SSScott Spendolinispendolini.blogSep 1, 2025 · 35 min read

Using SQLcl Projects

One of the more difficult parts of the software development lifecycle is deployment. While it seems simple on the surface - just write some scripts and run them - it gets pretty complicated pretty quickly as the level of sophistication of your system...

SSScott Spendolinispendolini.blogAug 18, 2025 · 6 min read

Using Claude Desktop to Create Dashboards for APEX

Another AI-centric tool that has raised a lot of interest is Claude Desktop. Like Cline, Claude Desktop uses the same reasoning engine at the core - Claude Code - to assist with development tasks. While they share the same engine, there are use cases...