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Why does Oracle return rows with EXISTS AND NOT EXISTS contradiction

Oracle's EXISTS/NOT EXISTS contradiction affects query results in 19c and 21c.

Peaking
Signal score
61
Sources
2
agreeing on oracle
Trajectory
↓ Cooling
7-day est. ~0

Why this scored 61

every term, weighted
Velocity+30.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+11.2 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+12.5 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+8.5 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty−1.0 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite61.3

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~0

range 0–19

14-day

~0

range 0–23

30-day

~0

range 0–31

Signal history

7-day window (free)
087

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

oracle
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