Every organization running an Oracle production database has a backup. Not every organization has a backup strategy. That distinction sounds subtle. It is not. A backup is a scheduled job and a storage location. A strategy is a set of deliberate decisions — what to back up, how much of it, how fast it needs Read more about 5 Key Considerations for Your Oracle Database Backup Strategy[…]
A request came in on a Thursday afternoon — the UAT team needed a fresh copy of the production PDB by Friday morning for regression testing. We had done local PDB clones before. The command is short, the documentation looks clean, and on a quiet system the operation finishes in minutes. What we had not Read more about PDB Cloning in Production: Gotchas Nobody Warns You About[…]
We had four PDBs on the same CDB running without any Oracle PDB resource plan for CPU and memory isolation. Three of them handled routine OLTP workloads — order processing, user authentication, a reporting schema. The fourth was a batch analytics PDB that ran nightly aggregations across three years of transactional history. For the first Read more about Managing PDB Resources: CPU and Memory Isolation Done Right[…]
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[…]
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[…]
A few months ago, we were in an architecture review when the solutions architect put up a slide titled “AI Stack — Proposed.” Oracle was in the middle tier, doing what it always does — transactions, reporting, the core workload. Sitting beside it, in its own separate box, was a vector database. Pinecone, specifically. The Read more about Oracle 23ai — Why Oracle Calls It The AI Database[…]