Learn how to Securely Generate Vector Embeddings from within Oracle AI Database 26ai using a local Ollama server

Learn how to Securely Generate Vector Embeddings from within the Oracle AI Database 26ai using the Oracle Private AI Services Container

Learn how to Configure Oracle AI Database 26ai Access Control Lists (ACLs) and test connectivity to the Oracle Private AI Services Container

Learn how to configure and test secure certificate based access to the Oracle Private AI Services Container.

Learn how to install Oracle DBMS_CLOUD into an Oracle AI Database 26a database and test website access with the Oracle UTL_HTTP package

Protect your Oracle 19c / 26ai RMAN backups from ransomware, malicious intent and human error with FlashBlade File System Snapshots

Learn how to download and use the Oracle Private AI Services Container to securely generate vector embedding without any dependancies on the public cloud.

Learn how to use Fusion Purity REST APIs to search for Oracle Databases and storage volumes using Tags across a Fleet of FlashArrays

Learn how to use AI to analyse Oracle AWR reports, review database and storage performance, identify bottleneck, and obtain recommendations

Learn how to configure and use Oracle AutoUpgrade to upgrade an Oracle Database 19c to Oracle AI Database 26ai

With the on-premises Oracle AI Database 26ai database now GA (generally available) many of us are exciting reading-up on all the new features, discussing database upgrades with server and storage team...

Background Over the recent months I have an increasing number of discussions around the use of Non-volatile Memory Express™ (NVMe™) over TCP (NVMe/TCP) storage and Oracle, so I thought it was time I documented how to configure NVMe/TCP on Oracle Linux 9 for Oracle Database 19c. Is this NVMe over TCP supported ? Yes, Oracle supports NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage devices for Oracle database 19c binaries, datafile and recovery files.

With the generally availability of on-premises Oracle AI Database 26ai imminent, I thought it was a good time to revisit a topic I played with earlier with Oracle 23ai. Oracle AI Database 26ai If you want to follow along with this blog post, and have yet to install Oracle AI Database 26ai, you may want to check-out this blog post…

Learn how to run a containerised Oracle Database 26ai natively on MacOS with Apple Containers

Background I have written many blog posts detailing how to run containerised Oracle database workloads using Docker, Podman and Kubernetes on a Mac. But we now have another new exciting, simpler and potentially faster option. At WWDC 2025, Apple announced its containerisation framework platform. Apple’s Containerisation framework runs each Linux container inside its own lightweight virtual machine (VM), providing hardware-level isolation instead of relying on traditional namespace-based container runtimes, such as…

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Background Following the recent announcement by Oracle on the de-support, and deprecation of the Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD). See Note: Oracle Automatic Storage Management Filter Driver (ASMFD) (Doc ID 2806979.1) I am starting to more interest in the use of Oracle ASMLib v3.1 for long term Oracle support, and also for the io_uring, and Thin Provisioning features. For those, who want to read-up on the Oracle ASMLIB v3.1, I have already written a blog post detailing how to…

Introduction Following the recent announcement of the deprecation and desupport of the Oracle ASM Filer Driver (ASMFD), and the release of a new version of the Oracle ASMLib for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). It's the perfect time to revisit ASMLib and write a blog on how to download, install, and configure the ASM library on Oracle Linux 9.

Introduction I recently had the pleasure of delivering a presentation at Kscope25 by ODTUG in Dallas, demonstrating an Oracle Database 23ai running on Kubernetes using Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) all driven from my MacBook. After my session I was asked 'Is it was possible to run Oracle Database 23ai on Kubernetes on a MacBook, if you don't have access to an on-premises or Cloud Kubernetes environment ?

I recently had the pleasure of delivering a presentation on Kubernetes and the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to the All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG). A question which was raised by an attendee was 'Can I learn Kubernetes without using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) OKE or other Cloud service?' Well the answer is yes, and this blog post I will share how to use…

Learn how to run Oracle Database 23ai Free on ARM based MacBooks with Podman

In this short post I will share how to run the latest Oracle 23ai (23.7.0.25.01) ARM container image on a MacBook with Podman. In this Blog post I will walkthrough the following steps: Configure Podman Download the Oracle Database 23ai Free image Create Podman data volume Create Podman secret Start Oracle 23ai database using Podman. Check Oracle Alert log file.

Introduction I recently had the opportunity to spend some time learning all about the Workato orchestration platform. After completing the Workato training paths and certifications I decided it was time to take my new found knowledge out for a spin. In the short video at the end of this post I will demonstrate how a Workato recipe can be used to orchestrate the refresh of multiple test Oracle Databases by calling an Ansible playbook, utilising Oracle scripts and Pure Storage REST APIs all from a Slack prompt.

What is a Lost Write ? A Lost Write, is as the name implies a database write which is lost, that is, the database writes a data block to the storage platform, receives an acknowledgment back from the storage but it was never actually persisted to disk or flash storage. There are a number of reasons why Lost Writes can occur, and the root cause can be extremely hard to diagnose.

I was recently asked Does a Pure Storage FlashArray include empty, unused Oracle Database space within its data reduction calculation ?. As I am sure many others may have had the same question, I thought it would make a good topic for a blog post, so here we go. FlashArray Data Reduction From the FlashArray User Guide we can read the following definition: