Course Materials

• Slides v7.0

• Activity Guide v9.0

Vector Database General Concepts

• What is Vector Database?

• What are Vector Embeddings?

• What is Vector Search?

Preparing the Practice Environment

• Link to download Oracle Database 23ai pre-built VM

• Importing and Configuring the VM

Overview of Oracle AI Vector Search

• Overview of Oracle AI Vector Search

Storing Vector Embeddings

• About Storing Vector Embeddings

• Lab: Storing Vectors, Performing DDL & DML Operations on Vector Data

Generating Vector Embeddings

• About Generating Vector Embeddings

• Lab Practice: Generating Embeddings within Database by importing pretrained ONNX models

• Lab Practice: Generating Embeddings using Third-Party Models leveraging Third-Party REST APIs

• Lab Practice: Generating Embeddings using Local REST Provider Ollama

Vector Distance Functions and Metrics

• Overview of Vector Distance Functions and Metrics

• Lab Practice: Vector Distance Functions and Metrics

Vector Indexes

• Overview of Vector Indexes

• Lab Practice: Creating Vector Indexes

Similarity Search and Hybrid Search

• Exact Similarity Search

• Approximate Similarity Search

• Multi-Vector Similarity Search

• Hybrid Search

• Lab Practice: Vector Search