Reading List – Gerald on IT

Reading List – October 2025 #2

📰 🤖 Code & Tune an Oracle DB REST API w/Claude, MCP, & ORDS – Jeff Smith shows how he […]

📰 rowlen surprise – Jonathan Lewis explains the avg_row_len and num_rows columns in user_tables 📰 Oracle DB 23ai supports external

🎉 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 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

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

📰 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

📰 Idle Chatter – David Fitzjarrell shows how DBAs can use user profiles to limit the number of idle sessions

📰 Bringing APEX and PL/SQL to D&D – Sean Stuber built some awesome APEX analytics for the popular Dungeons &