Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
March 19, 2025
Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.
News Flashes
Oracle has emerged as a key organization in the running to oversee TikTok's U.S. operations. Politico reported the White House is in discussions with Oracle on a deal that would give the company oversight over TikTok's U.S. data, and task Oracle with keeping that information walled off from the Chinese government.
Oracle Financial Services is enhancing its Investigation Hub Cloud Service with the addition of a broad class of AI agents and agentic workflows that enable financial firms to automate investigative processes needed to uncover complex patterns and fight financial crime. The agents help improve the overall quality and speed of reviewing suspicious activity by using generative AI-driven narratives to supplement investigators' own analysis.
Oracle announced plans to invest $5 billion over the next five years to meet growing demand for its cloud services in the U.K. The company said the investment will expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) footprint in the U.K. and help the U.K. Government "deliver on its vision for AI innovation and adoption."
Think About It
Data lakes and data warehouses are achieving a measure of success in modern data architectures, but the emergence of the data lakehouse offers new challenges and opportunities for database administrators (DBAs). What are the implications for DBAs and their careers? How do their roles evolve as data lakehouse usage expands? Let's examine the concepts, challenges, and opportunities for DBAs in the era of the data lakehouse.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
Oracle database administrators (DBAs) face significant challenges in managing consistency, efficient collaboration, and complex database schema changes across multiple environments. Manual processes for schema updates can be error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to coordinate across large teams. Downtime and data inconsistencies are two risks organizations face in this situation. To address this, DBA teams can use reliable database schema management tools such as Liquibase.
Oracle database administrators (DBAs) face significant challenges in managing consistency, efficient collaboration, and complex database schema changes across multiple environments. Manual processes for schema updates can be error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to coordinate across large teams. Downtime and data inconsistencies are two risks organizations face in this situation. To address this, DBA teams can use reliable database schema management tools such as Liquibase.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
Oracle database administrators (DBAs) face significant challenges in managing consistency, efficient collaboration, and complex database schema changes across multiple environments. Manual processes for schema updates can be error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to coordinate across large teams. Downtime and data inconsistencies are two risks organizations face in this situation. To address this, DBA teams can use reliable database schema management tools such as Liquibase.
Oracle database administrators (DBAs) face significant challenges in managing consistency, efficient collaboration, and complex database schema changes across multiple environments. Manual processes for schema updates can be error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to coordinate across large teams. Downtime and data inconsistencies are two risks organizations face in this situation. To address this, DBA teams can use reliable database schema management tools such as Liquibase.