This is article 7 of 8 in my Oracle AI Database Skills series.

Agent-assisted database changes need discovery, preview, approval, bounded execution, and independent verification. Reversibility must be established for the exact change and database release; an online operation is not automatically a safe rollback path.

Key Takeaways

The safety net is the process, not the model. Discovery before proposal, preview before apply, session-scoped verification before broad exposure, and a prepared rollback path — these steps protect against risk regardless of how confident the assistant sounds.

Invisible indexes let you test the impact of a change in one session before committing it to all queries.…