Data Daz (dasini.net) – Data Systems, AI, and Real-World Insights

Modern AI systems increasingly rely on multimodal data: text, images, documents, audio, and video. Among these modalities, image understanding has become one of the most important capabilities for AI-powered applications.
Traditionally, implementing these capabilities required specialized computer vision infrastructure, external vector databases, custom ML pipelines, and multiple frameworks.
With MySQL HeatWave GenAI, many of these capabilities can now be implemented directly inside SQL workflows using built-in AI routines.
In this article, we will build the foundations of a Vision Model Evaluation Assistant using MySQL HeatWave GenAI. The objective is not to create another image classifier, but rather a semantic image understanding platform.

In the previous episode we’ve seen how to use an OCI Bastion session in order to provide a restricted and time-limited access to administer our MySQL instance.
One more step to our Discovering MySQL Database Service journey.

In this episode, we’ll learn how to connect to our MySQL Database Service instance using the fantastic MySQL Shell – an interactive Javascript, Python, or SQL interface supporting development and administration for the MySQL Server.