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Reading List – December 2025 #3

📰 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

The Oracle Database is one of the most robust and feature-rich databases available. Naturally, its documentation is vast and frequently

📰 🤖 OML4Py 2.1 on Linux – Øyvind Isene uses OML4Py to export embedding models into ONNX format 📰 Using the MLE

📰 New scripts: vstat.sql & dstat.sql for showing Oracle Sysmetric history with 1-minute granularity – Tanel Poder continues his quest

📰 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

🏆 🤖 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