🚀 Oracle Pushes Forward with AI-Driven Analytics and Data Warehousing in 2026 As businesses continue to embrace AI and data-driven decision-making, Oracle is rapidly evolving its analytics and data platform offerings to meet the demands of modern enterprises. From unified AI platforms to next-generation autonomous data warehouses, the pace of…
Category: Oracle Analytics
Good Old Fashioned Hardware
In a world that has gone cloud and visualisation crazy, it was a joy last week to install some Oracle onto a Physical Server. Yep, a real server you can look at, touch, pickup and move office And best of all? It was soo easy to install on, and re-install,…
Addidici is on Holiday
After 25 years of hard graft, its time to take a break! Working hard, often under extraordinary client pressure, takes its toll, even on the unflappable Addidici, so we have taken a break from work, from Analytics and from blogging. This has given us time to travel, to reflect and…
Cloud
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October News
Wrapping up Oracle AIÂ World Connor McDonald writes that there was lots of buzz around AI but it was great to still see the high level of interest in the core database tech. Read his wrap up here. Implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Oracle Database 26ai Bruno Reis writes:…
Analytics
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July News
1. Using Spatial Studio to Extend / Enhance Dimensions for OAC Wayne D Van Sluys writes, “Oracle Spatial Studio is a great tool that can be leveraged to extend or enhance location based data you may already be working with in your analytic projects.” He walks us through an example…
Installing Windows Server 2025
Just a quick note to cover the install of a new Windows server on my blade. The first part of the process is to get the software. I use Microsoft Partner Centre, which seams to change the way it works, every YEAR! Annoying, but after an hour of setting things…
Install Apache Tomcat on Windows
One of the recommended webserver/app server systems to use in you ORDS/Apex stack is Weblogic, the other is Tomcat. I prefer tomcat because it is soo much quicker and easier to install, and more importantly, to configure. Pre-Requisites For this install I am using the JDK we already install (GraalVM…
Installing JDK 21 on Windows
Continuing our series on using apex to manage Oracle Analytics security. The APEX ‘Stack’ consists of five components The good news is that all of the above can be installed for free, even on windows, for you to learn from. Lets look at how we ‘install’ JDK Firstly we download…
Installing Apex on Windows
Oracle Analytics security can (and should in my view) use database tables managed using Oracle Apex. These tables can enable The reason we would do this is because user administration does not exist in OAS, the nearest you can get to it would be to use Console to manage the…
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February News
Stew Ashton writes, “Finding the difference between two dates or timestamps is hard! I am not fully satisfied with any of the solutions I have already proposed (or read), but I think this time I may have a decent answer.” 2. Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a New Forms Server in…