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Reading List – November 2025 #3

📰 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

📖 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

No, it’s not. It’s actually much more than that. I know there have been a lot of talks, blogs, etc.