Prebuilt KPIs & Extensible Semantic Model With Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) — soon to be renamed as Oracle aligns its AI & Data branding — one of the most powerful (and sometimes underused) capabilities remains: Prebuilt KPIs delivered on top of an extensible semantic layer running on Autonomous Data Warehouse….
Oracle Analytics & Data Warehousing – Weekly Roundup
February 18th 2026 (already!) Welcome to this week’s Oracle Analytics and Data Warehousing roundup — a quick TL;DR summary of useful updates, blog posts, and technical resources from across the Oracle community. As always, this focuses specifically on Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Autonomous Data Warehouse, Fusion Analytics, and useful SQL…
Oracle Analytics and the AI wave
🚀 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…
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 AI 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…
Weekly News
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May News
1.SQL Server Vulnerability: Audit Failure for SERVER_PERMISSION_CHANGE_GROUP in SQL Server 2022 This blog begins by saying, “Important Disclaimer: This vulnerability was reported to Microsoft. After assessment from Microsoft side they concluded that this is a low impact vulnerability and will fix it in a future “cumulative update” patch.” It concludes with “security…
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…