A recent LinkedIn post by Alex Blyth, Exadata Product Manager, got me thinking again about Hybrid Columnar Compression. He shared an infographic off the back of a conversation he had with a colleague about one of their customers, and whether HCC on Exadata should be used for ...
This is the last post in my four-part series on Metis, the AI CloudOps Co-pilot I have been building on OCI. In part 1 I covered the architecture, Lee mas acerca de este tema
In part 1 I introduced Metis and the architecture, and in part 2 I went deep on the ADB 26ai MCP endpoint. In this post I want to ...
In the first post of this series, I introduced Metis, the AI CloudOps Co-pilot I have been building on OCI, and walked through the high-level architecture. In this post I want to go deep on the ...
I wanted to share a project that has been keeping me busy on the weekends to learn about MCP, Functions, Vaults and other cool stuff : Metis, an AI CloudOps Co-pilot I have been building for my own OCI tenancy. The idea started simple ...
Most organizations are still trying to make sense of AI costs using familiar terms like licenses, VM-hours, and static TCO frameworks. However GenAI operates on a different model, its costs are variable and continuously evolving.
Every interaction consumes tokens, and that demand is nonlinear. A ...
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been playing around with something that caught my attention in the AI world, MCP, the Model Context Protocol.
If you’ve worked with AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or anything that tries to connect to ...
The first thing we need to do is understand what RMAN is and how it works. Oracle Recovery Manager, better known as RMAN, is a tool provided by Oracle and is included with the Enterprise and Standard editions. You can also find it as an option ...
If you’ve already started using RAC, or you’re planning to use it in the future, this is a term you should be familiar with. This is a somewhat heavy and lengthy topic, but I hope you’ll bear with me.
Put simply, ASM is a volume manager and storage solution ...
When you migrate to Oracle Exadata, you’re stepping into an ecosystem built specifically for the Oracle Database. With technologies like Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, and Offloading at the storage layer, Oracle says full table scans are fast—so fast, some recommend dropping your indexes altogether.
A very common task is investigating other sessions, since the ones causing problems in our database are often not our own, but application sessions. One very effective tool to determine what they are doing is to trace them. Let’s say we identify a session performing a lot of ...
If you’re working with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC), you may encounter unexpected failures when provisioning a new Oracle 23ai database using the standard dbaascli tooling or Cloud Automation workflows.
During the DBCA (Database Configuration Assistant) execution, the process fails with a fatal error code (DBAAS-60022) due ...
Continuing the series Back-To-Basics Guide, I tackle the question of When I issue a commit, are the changes immediately written to the datafiles?
To answer this, we first need to understand some of Oracle’s processes and memory structures. I invite you ...
In simple terms, an Oracle Database Instance is a set of memory structures and background processes that manage the database files. Every active Oracle Database must have at least one associated instance.
When you start an instance, it:
If you’re stepping into the world of Oracle or want a refresher, understanding what’s under the hood of an Oracle Database Server is a crucial first step.
This post simplifies the key concepts and architecture of it.
Think of it as ...