Another year has passed me by. Rather than reflect on the year that passed, I'd like to end the year looking forward into 2025. Hopefully, I 'll get to catch some beautiful equatorial lights in my home country Singapore a little more in the coming year. Meanwhile, in my final post for 2024, I'd like to cram in two Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) features that deserves more limelight and attention.
One of the key highlights at Oracle Cloudworld 2023 is general availability of Select AI feature that allows anyone to query the Oracle Database using natural language. This is likely made possible with a template wrapping the database metadata with the prompt, and then calling either the OpenAI or Cohere APIs to generate the intended text.
In September 2020, Oracle first announced that it was working with Ampere Computing to provide ARM-based chips for its Compute instance offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They have delivered!
ARM chips are found in many low-powered devices like smartphones, single-board computers, and IoT devices. So, if you are an Oracle Application Express (APEX) developer, you might be wondering, "What's in it for me?" Well, remember we talked about running a customer-managed Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) instance for an Oracle Autonomous Database?