Reading List – Gerald on IT

Reading List – November 2025 #2

📰 xb.sql and xbi.sql – Explain Oracle Execution Plans Better! (Part 3 – Cardinality Misestimates) – Tanel Poder explains the importance […]

📰 Surviving Regional and DNS Failures in the Cloud – Sinan Petrus Toma and Markus Michalewicz explain strategies to compensate for

📰 How to write a custom tracer for Oracle Database JDBC – Anders Swanson demonstrates the new Oracle Database JDBC

🏆 🤖 Oracle Breaks New Ground in Multilingual Text-to-SQL by Winning Archer Challenge – Oracle’s Reasoning-based Natural Language to SQL Solution –

📰 🤖 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