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Reading List – January 2026 #1

📰 What’s new with MLE 23.26.0 – support for PL/SQL Collections and Records Pt 2 – Martin Bach shows how […]

Not too long ago, I responded to an email list regarding the storage of Oracle Database’s extended VARCHAR2 data types,

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

Last week, a new version of SQLcl was released, SQLcl 25.4. The release contains a lot of cool new features,

🎉 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

If you’ve ever hit that dreaded No space left on device error mid-build in your GitHub Actions workflow, you’re not

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