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Oracle 26ai & MCP• Aug 30, 2026• 12 min read

Can an AI Agent Troubleshoot Live Oracle Databases? MCP + Cursor + Oracle 26ai

From a Dockerized Oracle database to an AI Agent that detects and explains a real blocking session. Connecting Cursor AI directly to Oracle 26ai via Model Context Protocol...

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Oracle AI & LLM• Aug 22, 2026• 11 min read

I Tried to Train an LLM for the First Time

What happens when an Oracle DBA tries QLoRA fine-tuning on Google Colab with Qwen 2.5 7B — and why lower training loss doesn't automatically mean better DBA knowledge...

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Oracle 26ai & RAG• Aug 17, 2026• 10 min read

I Gave Oracle My DBA Knowledge — My First RAG Experiment

An old DBA tries to turn years of troubleshooting experience into searchable knowledge using Oracle 26ai, embeddings, Vector Search and a local LLM. Over the years, I've solved a lot of database problems...

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Oracle 26ai & AI• Aug 16, 2026• 7 min read

Embeddings, Vectors and Oracle 26ai

My first hands-on experiment with an embedding model and Vector Search — and what surprised me most. I've been an Oracle DBA for many years, working with RAC, ASM, Exadata, Data Guard, and performance tuning...

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Exadata & AWS• Aug 13, 2026• 3 min read

AWS & Oracle: Competitors or Partners? What ExaDB-XS Means for DBAs

When we were working with Exadata V1 or V2, I don't think any of us imagined that one day we would see Oracle Exadata running inside AWS. But here we are. AWS has announced the general availability of ExaDB-XS...

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