By Rick Houlihan & Patrick Meredith Databricks named the right problem. Their answer is a credible execution of an idea Oracle Multitenant solved a decade earlier — and as it turns out, the gap they think they've found in Oracle was only one PL/SQL package away from closing. The Pitch That Started This A colleague forwarded me the Databricks blog post the other day. Opening line: "In our previous blog, we introduced Lakebase, the third-generation database architecture that fundamentally separates storage and compute." — Databricks, "How agentic software development will change databases" So, like what Oracle did 12 years ago. I'm being a little snide. Bear with me — there's a real article underneath. The blog is a thoughtful read about how AI agents are changing database workloads, and most of the diagnosis is right.…