oracle-cloud

Oracle’s Base Database Service Changes for OCI Deployments

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If you run Oracle databases on OCI, July 2026 was a significant inflection point that deserves more than a passing glance at your email inbox. Oracle retired several Base Database Service configurations and billing SKUs, made architectural changes to what new VM.BaseDB.x86 deployments can do, and pointed workloads that depended on those capabilities toward a … Read more

Oracle Database Service options for Azure Customers

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We saw Larry Ellison visit Redmond for the first time to make an important partnership announcement with Satya Nadella. Yesterday’s announcement shows we have two similar-sounding Oracle database services on Azure. Oracle Database Service “FOR” Azure (ODSA) and Oracle Database “AT” Azure (OracleDatabase@Azure). Here is a quick note to understand the differences between these services … Read more