In what was probably the most important announcement made during 2017 ’s version of Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, the company announced the release of version 18c of its worldwide known database management system which includes two key features: to be a fully automated. Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison made the announcement of the autonomous database, which includes database and cyber-security automation because, according to Mr. Ellison, “human processes stink”. According to Oracle, the autonomous database will practically eliminate all human intervention associated with all database managing activities like tuning, patching, updating and maintenance by including major capabilities: Self-Driving: Provides continuous adaptive performance tuning based on machine learning. Automatically upgrades and patches itself while running. Automatically applies security updates while running to protect against cyber-attacks. Self-Scaling: Instantly resizes compute and stora
Musings about the data (D) of things.