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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

July 2026: Oracle changed Base Database Services. ❌ OCPU billing — retired ❌ ASM — gone for new deployments ❌ Two-node RAC — gone ❌ EE-Extreme Performance — retired ⚠️ And that OCPU→ECPU conversion cuts your RAM in half bijoos.com/oraclenotes/... #OracleACE #OracleCloud

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Oracle’s Base Database Service Changes for OCI Deployments – Bijoos OracleNotes

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you are using Autonomous AI Database, you have seen alerts regarding the announcement "Important Announcement for Autonomous AI Database Customers: DigiCert G1 Certificate Distrust on April 15, 2026" Here are the quick steps to verify whether you are impacted bijoos.com/oraclenotes/...

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Autonomous AI Database DigiCert G1 Certificate Distrust on April 15, 2026 – Bijoos OracleNotes

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Oracle's "Fusion AI Data Platform" and "Oracle AI Data Platform" sound identical, but serve completely different users. One is a turnkey SaaS for business leaders. The other is a PaaS toolkit for builders. bijoos.com/oraclenotes/... #TechStrategy #DataEngineering #OracleCloud

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App vs. Architecture: Decoding Oracle’s “AI Data Platform” – Bijoos OracleNotes

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If you sit in front of a computer for a living, read this. Microsoft’s AI Chief says your routine tasks could be automated within a year and a half. "Professional-grade AGI" is arriving fast. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Is the upgrade to Oracle Database 26ai really as easy as clicking a button? 🤔 I tested it on an environment with Cross-Region Data Guard. Here is exactly what happened and how long it took. Check it out: bijoos.com/oraclenotes/... #OracleDatabase #26ai #TechBlog

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Upgrading Oracle Autonomous AI Database with Cross-Region Data Guard from 19c to 26ai – Bijoos OracleNotes

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

With Oracle Database@Azure, managed GoldenGate and Microsoft Fabric aren't competitors—they’re the perfect team. GoldenGate handles high-fidelity replication while Fabric drives analytics. bijoos.com/oraclenotes/...

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Oracle GoldenGate and Microsoft Fabric: Better Together for Oracle Database@Azure – Bijoos OracleNotes

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

#OraTidbit #AIDB26ai #DB23ai #SQL The GROUP BY clause now accepts column aliases, improving the readability and maintainability of complex queries.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

#OraTidbit #AIDB26ai #DB23ai #Security You can create read-only users at the PDB level, providing granular control over data access. CREATE USER user1 IDENTIFIED BY testuser1 QUOTA UNLIMITED ON DATA READ ONLY;

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#OraTidbit #AIDB26ai #DB23ai #Security Schema-level privileges simplify security management by allowing you to grant access to all objects within a schema with a single command. GRANT SELECT ANY TABLE on SCHEMA hr TO scott.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#OraTidbit #AIDB26ai #DB23ai #AIVectorSearch The VECTOR_DISTANCE function is a key component of AI Vector Search. Distance is a measure of the similarity or dissimilarity between the objects the vectors represent, which is fundamental to semantic search and other AI workloads.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

SQLcl meets Claude Desktop! 💡 See the powerful, step-by-step guide to setting up the MCP server to unlock AI analysis for your #Oracle Database schema, metrics, and best practices. Start playing now: bijoos.com/oraclenotes/... #SQLcl #GenAI #OracleDB

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Optimizing Oracle Database Experience with SQLCL and Claude Desktop – OracleNotes

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#OraTidbit #DB23ai #AIDB26 #DBA SYSDATE and SYSTIMESTAMP can now be managed separately in each Pluggable Database (PDB) in a Container Database (CDB).

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#OraTidbit #DB23ai #AIDB26 #DBA Bigfile tablespaces are now the default for SYSTEM, SYSAUX, and user tablespaces in newly created databases.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

#OraTidbit #DB23ai #AIDB26 #Security Password length has been extended to 1024 bytes, allowing for more complex and secure password policies.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

AIWorld kicks off! I started my day with exciting AI-ready solutions on the Oracle database after grabbing my badge. Larry's keynote on Tuesday afternoon promises some big announcements! If you're in Vegas and see this post, I hope we get a chance to say hello. #OracleAce

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #Monitoring The OCI Monitoring service lets you create custom alarms with multiple notification destinations, such as PagerDuty, Slack, or email via the Notifications service.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #DataFlow OCI Data Flow is a fully managed Apache Spark service, allowing you to run large-scale data processing jobs without having to manage a cluster.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #Security Data Safe is a unified control center for your Oracle Databases that helps you assess security risks, monitor for threats, mask sensitive data, and audit user activity. It's included with OCI database services.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #Cost The Cloud Advisor service is free and provides recommendations to help you optimize costs, improve performance, and enhance the security of your tenancy.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #Cost The cost of OCI support is included in your Universal Credits pricing, unlike some other clouds, where it is a separate line item.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #DevOps The OCI DevOps service provides a complete CI/CD platform, including code repositories, build pipelines, artifact registries, and deployment pipelines to automate your software delivery lifecycle.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #Storage OCI Block Volume's Ultra High Performance (UHP) tier delivers up to 300,000 IOPS and 2,680 MB/s of throughput per volume, ideal for the most demanding applications.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#OraTidbit #OCI #Compute Burstable instances are ideal for workloads with occasional CPU spikes. They provide a baseline CPU utilization and can burst to full core performance when needed, optimizing cost.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#OraTidbit #DB23ai #DevLife DB_DEVELOPER_ROLE in Oracle Database 23ai is to simplify security management for application developers by providing a single, comprehensive role that contains most of the necessary system and object privileges required to design, implement, debug, and deploy applications

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#OraTidbit #AutonomousDB The DBA_CLOUD_PATCH_INFO view in Oracle Autonomous Database provides patch details related to specific customer-reported bugs that have been resolved and applied to your Autonomous Database instance. The PATCH_VERSION column shows version of the patch that includes the fix.

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Discover the differences between Oracle's Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) and Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D). #OracleCloud #Exadata #DatabaseService #CloudComputing bijoos.com/oraclenotes/...

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ExaDB-XS vs ExaDB-D – When to choose ExaDB-XS – OracleNotes

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Oana Bonu @oanabonu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We are happy to invite you to the second Oracle ACE Virtual Conference, which will be held on April 2, 2025 between 7:00 and 9:45 a.m. PST. Register for free now and learn more from our amazing ACE speakers ♠️ 👉 blogs.oracle.com/ace/post/ora...

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#ukougDiscover24 #oracleEBS Enabling Natural Language Query on EBS Release 12.2, Leveraging Oracle Generative AI. Nadia showing us the new feature of EBS - conversation with EBS using plain English! Awesome!

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#ukougDiscover24 #oci excited to present two sessions today at the UKOUG Discover24 conference. #oracleace

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Exascale is a groundbreaking advancement that combines Exadata's strengths with the advantages of the cloud. This hyper-elastic architecture manages mission-critical workloads where a dedicated Exa is excessive. buff.ly/4eJw04L #oracledb #exadata #oraclecloud #oci

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Counting down to #UKOUGDiscover24! Honored to share the stage with #oracle and #multicloud experts—this is one event you can’t miss (especially if you are in the UK). Get your ticket today!👉 buff.ly/3Zjo7hU @UKOUG #UKOUGDiscover24 #OracleACE #DataIntensity

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

From Zero to #GenAI Hero in a Day with @rohitrahi and Himanshu Raj. #ocw24

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Quest Oracle DB & Tech Community - Oracle Database 19c SIG March 2024 Meetup - Join us tomorrow (Friday, March 8, 2024, 11 AM EST) to discuss "The Path to Multicloud for Oracle DBAs" by @AnujMo #multicloud @oracleace @QuestUserGroup

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Announcing OCI FastConnect 400G direct connections bit.ly/3Iogi16 #OracleCloud #OCI #Network

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Wish you a fantabulous 2024!

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

🎉 that's the last conference speaking in 2023! 🎉 thank you #ECO23 #EastCoastOracle - via #Whova event app

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

I am speaking at East Coast Oracle Users Conference. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #ECO23 #EastCoastOracle - via #Whova event app

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Quest Oracle Community - Database 19c SIG December Meeting is tomorrow. Sinan Petrus Toma at Oracle will discuss your Options for Data Replication and Disaster Recovery on Oracle Cloud. Register:...

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

East Coast Oracle Conference is December 12 and 13 in Raleigh, NC. I am excited to be a part of the speaker panel again. Registration is still open - www.eastcoastoracle.org @DataIntensity #ECO23 #EastCoastOracle @oracleace @EastCoastOracle

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Quest Oracle Community - Database 19c SIG November Meeting is tomorrow (10-Nov-2023) at 11 AM ET. Register here: lnkd.in/exFSAyNP @QuestUserGroup @IOUG @simonpane @AnujMo @oracleace @OracleAPEX

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Biju Thomas @bijoos.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Quest Oracle Community - Database 19c SIG October Meeting is tomorrow (13-Oct-2023) at 11 AM ET. The speaker will be Ian Cookson, Product Manager Application Continuity & Clusterware, Oracle. Register here bit.ly/dbsig-registration @AnujMo @QuestUserGroup @RACMasterPM...

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