AI – Gerald on IT

Reading List – November 2025 #1

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

🏆 🤖 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

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

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

📖 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