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…