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[…]

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

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[…]