Known for many years as "the optimizer lady", there are very few people that can throw down with tech ubergeeks in the Oracle community whilst at the same time nonchalantly stroll into a meeting with Larry Ellision, but Maria Colgan is one of the select people that can do so. Maria has nearly 3 decades of experience with the Oracle Database, covering SQL, performance, and the optimizer and even OS/2. In this episode, Maria and I talk about what a face to face meeting with Larry Ellison is like; the cool features coming in 23c; JSON as the new data exchange standard and of course, her beloved Tesla :-) If you like this episode, be sure you hit the Like button and share it with your colleagues. Catch me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/connor_mc_d  if you have comments or questions.