This article is based on a presentation that my colleague, Soyhan Parlar, delivered at the Swiss Oracle User Group Day in Bern in March 2026, which we prepared together. A New Opportunity for Autonomous Database Oracle Autonomous Database was launched back in 2018. However, at least in Switzerland, adoption has not been as widespread as […]
A step-by-step guide to finding the answer by yourself Recently, a procurement officer from a customer I’m working with reached out to me with a question: “Is the Exadata Management Pack included in the License Included option?” The customer is using several Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) systems. As you may know, there are two ways to
Last week, during the Swiss Oracle User Group Day in Bern, hosted at Mobiliar as part of its 200-year anniversary, Moritz Werning from Swisscom and Erika Sciunzi from Oracle presented the use case behind the implementation of the FinOps dashboard I recently talked about (more details here) The Motivation The customer began by explaining why
Exadata on-premises vs cloud: what hardware flexibility really means. Start smaller, scale up or down, refresh faster, and cut TCO:a practical five-year comparison.
A few weeks ago, during a customer meeting, I was asked about the best way to create personalized reports for controlling costs in their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenant. Fortunately, OCI offers several built-in tools to help users monitor, analyze, and manage cloud spending. Among these are OCI Cost Analysis and Scheduled Reports, which provide
One of the most familiar Oracle Database initialization parameters for DBAs is the SESSIONS parameter. This setting limits the maximum number of concurrent sessions, effectively connections, allowed on an Oracle Database instance. The first time you reach this maximum is memorable: every new connection attempt is denied with an ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded
With the latest DB@Azure announcement, more customers are considering migrating their legacy databases to the cloud, taking advantage of running Oracle Database on their preferred hyperscaler. In my conversations with customers, I consistently see growing interest in Oracle Autonomous Database as a top choice. The discussion often starts with features like manageability, scalability and security
Over the past few months, a remarkable shift has become evident in conversations with Oracle customers and partners: the topic on everyone’s mind is Oracle’s multi-cloud strategy, especially the innovations around Oracle Database services delivered on Azure, AWS, and GCP. At the recent launch event for Oracle Database@Azure in Switzerland, we welcomed more than 100
Last week, I received an email from a customer asking whether the use of the DBMS_CLOUD package is subject to licensing restrictions. They were considering using DBMS_CLOUD on an on-premises database to write to an S3 bucket in the cloud. At first, I thought this would be a straightforward question. However, I quickly realized it
As an Oracle Pre- and Post-Sales Engineer with a technical flair, I occasionally present at User Groups, sharing the latest technology and valuable lessons learned from projects in the field. But my journey into the world of Oracle User Groups started many years ago. Back then, I was working for my former employer and decided,
