Gerald on IT

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 AI Database 23.26.1 is now available as container images

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

Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition is now generally available for Linux x86-64. You can download it from the usual

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

Oracle provides more free software than one would think

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

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

📰 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,