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DBA monitoring AI agents running inside Oracle database console

Oracle Just Changed the Job Description of a DBA — Here’s What Actually Breaks First in Production

Posted on by Sanjeeva Kumar

A junior DBA on my team asked me last week what she should be studying next. My honest answer surprised her: not another indexing course. Agent governance — the new discipline the Oracle agentic AI database shift just made unavoidable. That’s not a sentence I expected to say two years ago. But Oracle’s agentic AI Read more about Oracle Just Changed the Job Description of a DBA — Here’s What Actually Breaks First in Production[…]

Oracle AI Database 26ai vector index comparison showing HNSW graph layers and IVF partition clusters for semantic similarity search

Vector Indexes in Oracle AI Database 26ai — How HNSW and IVF Work Under the Hood

Posted on by Sanjeeva Kumar

In Post -2 of this series, We had a vector search query running clean in development — ten milliseconds, HNSW index in the plan, results looking right. The moment the same query hit a table with eight million rows in staging, response time jumped to forty seconds. The execution plan had quietly switched to TABLE Read more about Vector Indexes in Oracle AI Database 26ai — How HNSW and IVF Work Under the Hood[…]