Production DBA checklist diagram for Oracle AI Database 26ai deployment covering vector infrastructure sizing, JSON Relational Duality deployment gates, and Select AI governance decisions

Building an AI-Ready Oracle Database: A Production DBA Checklist

Three weeks before go-live on an Oracle AI Database 26ai deployment, we ran a readiness review mostly with the help of Oracle AI Database 26ai production DBA checklist. At the surface level, things looked stable. Vector search was working in staging. JSON Relational Duality Views were serving the REST layer. Select AI was configured against Read more about Building an AI-Ready Oracle Database: A Production DBA Checklist[…]

Architecture diagram showing how Oracle AI Database 26ai JSON Relational Duality Views translate JSON writes into row-level DML on underlying relational tables, with lock icons indicating concurrent access behavior.

5 Things DBAs Must Know About JSON Relational Duality in Oracle AI Database 26ai

Last month we were reviewing a staging incident where an application team had migrated their REST layer to use JSON Relational Duality Views in Oracle AI Database 26ai. The feature worked exactly as advertised during unit testing — clean JSON in, clean JSON out, relational tables staying normalized underneath. Then they ran a load test Read more about 5 Things DBAs Must Know About JSON Relational Duality in Oracle AI Database 26ai[…]