Gerald Venzl

Reading List – September 2025 #4

🎉 Oracle Corporation Announces Promotion of Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to CEOs – Oracle announced a change in leadership […]

📰 FIO Benchmarks Highlight Performance Gains with Hammerspace Tier 0 Architecture on OCI – Oracle Cloud shows new storage benchmark

📰 🤖 Exadata AI Smart Scan Deep Dive – Alex Blyth drills into the Exadata Smart Scan enhancements for AI

Oracle’s Multitenant architecture allows you to unplug a Pluggable Database (PDB) from one Container Database (CDB) and plug it into

📰 Oracle Master Encryption Key Management: Wallets, OKV, and HSM Explained – Bryan Grenn shows practical examples of Oracle Database

📰 💡 Using a modern database? You might not need that ORM anymore – Anders Swanson shares his thoughts on

Oracle Database 23.9 implements the non-positional INSERT statement. In my social media posts, I called out that Oracle Database is

📰 Autonomous DB and OCI: Exporting a Schema to Object Storage + Retention Policy – Marcus Vinicius gives you a

My recent blog post about Oracle Database 23.7 has generated significant interest in one particular feature: materialized columns. In this

📰 Were you aware of the two hidden columns in CDB-Views? – Mike Dietrich shares some interesting insights regarding the

📖 UUID() Function in Oracle Database 23ai – Oracle Base demonstrates the new UUID function 📰 You don’t have to

For more information on what’s new in Oracle Database 23.8, see: What’s new for Developers in 23.8 Oracle Database 23.9