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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai

Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support for Oracle's latest long-term support release, 26ai, enabling natural language to SQL generation and in-database RAG implementations

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai, Oracle's latest Long Term Support Release. Oracle Database 26ai includes features such as Select AI for generating and running SQL queries from natural language prompts, AI Vector Search for retrieval augmented generation directly from SQL, JSON Relational Duality Views, and SQL Property Graphs for in-database graph analytics. You can create new DB instances running Oracle Database 26ai or upgrade from Oracle Database 19c or 21c container databases. Oracle Database 26ai is available in Enterprise Edition only and can be used in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

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