Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
July 2, 2025
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News Flashes
Hammerspace, the standards-based data platform that simplifies AI infrastructure and an Oracle partner, is announcing that the Hammerspace Tier 0 solution is now available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
OpenELA is introducing ELValidated, a verification and interoperability suite for Enterprise Linux operating systems. This suite gives organizations and developers the ability to verify the compatibility of their Enterprise Linux distributions. According to OpenELA, this compatibility enables software and hardware vendors to reduce testing costs, resource commitments, and risk while giving end-users more choice and confidence in using compatible versions, as well as more flexibility in their Enterprise Linux distribution options.
Oracle announced that AI innovators across the world are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure and OCI Supercluster to train AI models and deploy AI inference and applications. Companies such as Fireworks AI, Hedra, Numenta, Soniox, and hundreds of other leading AI innovators have selected OCI for its scalability, performance, cost efficiency, choice of compute instances, and control over where to run their AI workloads, according to Oracle.
Think About It
Inside any database management system (DBMS), one can designate a specific data item as "null." The null represents the "existence" of a non-value, the nonexistence of a value, or…nothing. This sounds a bit like an oxymoron, a nonvalue value, but there it is. Each DBMS has its own implementation of null support, so what it does to be able to share with you that "there is no value" can differ. For example, rather than a value, there may be a group of bit flags associated with an individual data element, with one of those bits being an "I am null" flag. And because every DBMS has its own way of doing this, it is best not to think that by using a null, one is greatly saving on space usage. Space may be saved, or maybe not so much.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
For Oracle database administrators (DBAs), one of the most critical yet routine tasks is managing backups. Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's native tool for backup and recovery, remains the go-to solution due to its robustness and flexibility. However, as database sizes grow and uptime demands increase, optimizing RMAN performance becomes essential.
For Oracle database administrators (DBAs), one of the most critical yet routine tasks is managing backups. Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's native tool for backup and recovery, remains the go-to solution due to its robustness and flexibility. However, as database sizes grow and uptime demands increase, optimizing RMAN performance becomes essential.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
For Oracle database administrators (DBAs), one of the most critical yet routine tasks is managing backups. Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's native tool for backup and recovery, remains the go-to solution due to its robustness and flexibility. However, as database sizes grow and uptime demands increase, optimizing RMAN performance becomes essential.
For Oracle database administrators (DBAs), one of the most critical yet routine tasks is managing backups. Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's native tool for backup and recovery, remains the go-to solution due to its robustness and flexibility. However, as database sizes grow and uptime demands increase, optimizing RMAN performance becomes essential.