Reading List – Gerald on IT

Reading List – February 2026 #4

Lots of good 26 (and) ai content

Customer wins, AI integration and more

📰 Dealing with TNS database connections with Oracle MCP (SQLcl) – Jeff Smith explains how to connect your MCP server

🏆 Oracle Advances American AI Innovation and Local Economic Prosperity in New Mexico – Oracle will be the tenant of

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison

🏆 Community Memorial Hospital Chooses Oracle Health to Enhance Patient Care and Power Operational Excellence – CMH will use Oracle

📰 Upgrade Oracle Database 19c Non-CDB to 26ai and Convert to PDB Using Refreshable Clone PDB – Daniel Hansen shows

📰 What’s new with MLE 23.26.0 – support for PL/SQL Collections and Records Pt 2 – Martin Bach shows how

🎉 Introducing OCI Ampere A4 Standard: Next-Generation Arm-Based Cloud Compute for Performance and Efficiency – Oracle introduces new OCI instance

📰 RAC Rolling Patching in Autoupgrade – Looking for Early Testers – Oracle is looking for some early testers for

📰 More good reasons to use bind variables in cursors in Oracle – Martin Bach explains what bind variables are

📰 How Oracle 23ai Fixes Bad Plans Instantly.. A Live Demo of Real-Time SPM – Prashant Dixit dives into Oracle 23ai