AI – Gerald on IT

Reading List – January 2026 #4

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

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

In the ever-evolving world of technology, few pairings have sparked as much innovation as the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI)

🎉 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

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