Reading List – November 2025 #2
📰 xb.sql and xbi.sql – Explain Oracle Execution Plans Better! (Part 3 – Cardinality Misestimates) – Tanel Poder explains the importance […]
Oracle Database
Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 Free multi-platform images now available on gvenzl/oracle-free
Oracle AI Database 23.26.0 Free multi-platform images are now available on container registries docker.io/gvenzl/oracle-free and ghcr.io/gvenzl/oracle-free. With this release, 23.8 images have now gone
Reading List – November 2025 #1
📰 Surviving Regional and DNS Failures in the Cloud – Sinan Petrus Toma and Markus Michalewicz explain strategies to compensate for
Reading List – October 2025 #4
📰 How to write a custom tracer for Oracle Database JDBC – Anders Swanson demonstrates the new Oracle Database JDBC
Reading List – October 2025 #3
🏆 🤖 Oracle Breaks New Ground in Multilingual Text-to-SQL by Winning Archer Challenge – Oracle’s Reasoning-based Natural Language to SQL Solution –
Reading List – October 2025 #2
📰 🤖 Code & Tune an Oracle DB REST API w/Claude, MCP, & ORDS – Jeff Smith shows how he
Reading List – October 2025 #1
📰 rowlen surprise – Jonathan Lewis explains the avg_row_len and num_rows columns in user_tables 📰 Oracle DB 23ai supports external
Reading List – September 2025 #4
🎉 Oracle Corporation Announces Promotion of Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to CEOs – Oracle announced a change in leadership
Reading List – September 2025 #3
📰 FIO Benchmarks Highlight Performance Gains with Hammerspace Tier 0 Architecture on OCI – Oracle Cloud shows new storage benchmark
Reading List – September 2025 #2
📰 🤖 Exadata AI Smart Scan Deep Dive – Alex Blyth drills into the Exadata Smart Scan enhancements for AI
How to Unplug an Oracle Database PDB into a .pdb File and Replug into Another Container Database
Oracle’s Multitenant architecture allows you to unplug a Pluggable Database (PDB) from one Container Database (CDB) and plug it into
Reading List – September 2025 #1
📰 Oracle Master Encryption Key Management: Wallets, OKV, and HSM Explained – Bryan Grenn shows practical examples of Oracle Database