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OAC · 16 Oct 2026
Combine a custom variance visualisation with Oracle Analytics parameters and dashboard filters to explore the same change by region, country, product and sales channel.
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A live sandbox test shows how Oracle AIDP compute can start and stop on a schedule using an API signing key, without browser sign-in for each run.
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Developing across Spark and Autonomous AI Lakehouse in VS Code, with the AIDP and SQL Developer extensions, gated notebook features and a practical SQL rendering workaround.
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OAC Resource Groups allow multiple semantic models with dedicated capacity, but they do not replace separate development, pre-production and production environments.
9 min readAI · 13 Jul 2026
Enterprise AI cannot deliver trusted outcomes without strong data quality, governance, semantics and integrated platforms. The most important part of an AI strategy may not be AI at all.
3 min readAI · 20 Jun 2026
When Oracle announced that it had been named the overall leader in ISG Research’s 2026 AI and Data Platforms Buyers Guide, my initial reaction was probably the same as many people working in the data and AI…
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