Oracle Performance Insights A Blog By Kamlesh Ambre

  Oracle has officially launched its next-generation long-term support release— Oracle AI Database 26ai , setting a new standard for AI-driven data management . Building on the success of Oracle Database 23ai , this release integrates deeper intelligence, advanced automation, and a unified data model designed for the AI era. With Oracle 26ai , enterprises can seamlessly upgrade, unlock new AI-native capabilities, and run mission-critical workloads faster, smarter, and more securely tha n ever before. 🌟 What’s New in Oracle 26ai 1. Enterprise-Wide AI Integration AI is now natively embedded across all data types and workloads—relational, spatial, text, and graph—bridging the gap between data and intelligence. 2. Advanced AI Vector Search The second generation of Oracle’s AI Vector Search delivers blazing-fast similarity searches across multimodal enterprise data, powering contextual retrieval and inference directly inside the database. 3. Model Context Protocol (MCP) MCP introduce...

  Introduction Oracle Database 23ai introduced a powerful new diagnostic capability through the DBMS_SQLDIAG.REPORT_SQL function, which generates comprehensive HTML diagnostic reports for SQL statements. The great news for Oracle 19c users is that this feature has been backported to Oracle Database 19.28 , allowing you to leverage advanced SQL analysis without upgrading to 23ai. Before this feature, DBAs typically relied on the awrsqrpt.sql script to analyze SQL execution plans and performance metrics. The new REPORT_SQL function provides a more comprehensive, graphical HTML report with deeper performance insights. What Does SQL Diagnostic Report Provide? The REPORT_SQL function generates a comprehensive HTML diagnostic report that includes: Execution Plan History - Track how execution plans have evolved over time Cursor Sharing Information - Understand cursor behavior and sharing patterns Optimizer Statistics History - View changes in optimizer statistics Index ...