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Introducing Oracle Enterprise AI Lakehouse: Unifying AI, Data, and Analytics Across Clouds

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Getting Hands-On with Oracle's Enterprise AI Lakehouse 📅 July 11, 2026 🏷️ Autonomous AI Lakehouse, OCI  ⏱ 15 min read Quick DiSCLAIMER Quick disclaimer before I get into it, because I know someone will ask in the comments: Oracle's actual product name is Autonomous AI Lakehouse . "Enterprise AI Lakehouse" is the phrase a lot of people (including a few folks on my own team) use informally to describe it, because that is exactly the job it is built for — an enterprise-grade lakehouse with AI baked into the engine rather than bolted on top. I will use both terms in this post, but if you go looking for it in Oracle's docs or console, search for "Autonomous AI Lakehouse." I have spent the better part of the last few weeks poking at this thing on a sandbox tenancy, partly out of curiosity and partly because three separate customers asked me some version of "should we ditch our data lake pipeline and just point everything at the Autonomous Database?...
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Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM): Introduction to Automated Database Migration

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Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM): Introduction to Automated Database Migration Architecture, migration methods, what's new in release 26.1, and a decision framework for your first migration. 📅 July 10, 2026 🏷️ Oracle ZDM, Migration, OCI  ⏱ 20 min read Article Overview This guide covers Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) — Oracle's free, automated engine for moving Oracle databases into OCI and multicloud targets with minimal or zero downtime. We break down the three migration methods (Physical, Logical, Hybrid), what shipped in the 26.1 release, platform and version support, and a practical decision framework for DBAs planning their first migration. 📋 Table of Contents What is Oracle Zero Downtime Migration? ZDM 26.1 — What's New The Three Migration Methods Head-to-Head Comparison Table Physical Migration Deep Dive Logical Migration Deep Dive Hybrid Migration Deep Dive Core Capabilities Across All Methods Why This Matters for Apps DBAs Decision Matrix & Getting...
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AI Models in Oracle Cloud: A Complete Guide to Oracle's Enterprise AI Ecosystem

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AI Models in Oracle Cloud: A Complete Guide to Oracle's Enterprise AI Ecosystem Foundation models, managed AI services, GPU infrastructure and Database 23ai — the full OCI AI stack, explained. 📅 Jul 09, 2026 🏷️ Oracle Cloud AI ⏱ 18 min read Article Overview This guide takes the OCI AI portfolio apart layer by layer and puts it back together in a way that's easy to reason about. We start at the GPU fabric, climb through the model families you can call (Cohere, Meta Llama, Mistral and Oracle's own), then look at the managed services that wrap those models and the AI features Oracle ships inside Database 23ai. Along the way you'll see why keeping vectors in the database can retire a standalone vector store, how a grounded RAG pipeline and an agent are wired together, and which habits keep a deployment secure and affordable in production. AI stopped being a lab curiosity a while ago; today it's a line item that boards expect to see delivering results. What most organi...
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