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Oracle recently announced the release of the Oracle Private AI Services Container, this allows you to securely generate vector embeddings outside the Oracle AI Database 26ai, offload the CPU and without any dependency upon the public cloud or the internet. In this blog post I will share how to set-up the environment, check the health... Continue Reading →
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 teams, speaking with developers about testing and scheduling regression testing with application owners. But before we start we need to prepare an environment. Pre-Installation Storage... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →