Category: Database
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Oracle Update Advisor
Oracle has been working since April 2026 with frontier AI models, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s most advanced models through Trusted Access for Cyber, to find vulnerabilities across the database stack before adversaries can weaponise them. That collaboration changes the arithmetic of patching for every DBA who runs more than a handful of homes.…
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Oracle Database Security Central
If you already run Audit Vault and Database Firewall and just found out Oracle now calls something “Database Security Central,” this post answers the question you probably have first: is this a new thing to buy, or is it what AVDF becomes? Since this question tends to come with two more attached to it, I…
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EBCDIC Compatibility in Oracle 26ai: The Mainframe Re-Platforming Bridge
Special thanks to Virginia Arroyo, Oracle Cloud Migration Director, for her review of this article. There is a quiet assumption baked into almost every modern database conversation, and it goes something like this: everything is Unicode now, so encoding is a solved problem. For most greenfield systems, that is more or less true. But walk…
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Oracle 26ai Deprecations: What’s Going Away
If you’ve been running Oracle Database long enough, you’ve seen deprecation notices before. Usually they’re a heads-up in the release notes, maybe a year or two to adapt. Oracle 26ai takes a more thorough approach: it’s streamlining the platform by retiring features whose functionality has been superseded by more modern, more capable alternatives. This is…
