Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Reading List – February 2026 #3

Customer wins, AI integration and more

📰 Dealing with TNS database connections with Oracle MCP (SQLcl) – Jeff Smith explains how to connect your MCP server

🏆 Oracle Advances American AI Innovation and Local Economic Prosperity in New Mexico – Oracle will be the tenant of

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

🏆 Community Memorial Hospital Chooses Oracle Health to Enhance Patient Care and Power Operational Excellence – CMH will use Oracle

🎉 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

📰 🤖 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