SQL – Gerald on IT

Reading List – February 2026 #2

📰 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

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

For more information on what’s new in Oracle Database 23.9, see: What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.9 Oracle

📰 Surviving Regional and DNS Failures in the Cloud – Sinan Petrus Toma and Markus Michalewicz explain strategies to compensate for

📰 How to write a custom tracer for Oracle Database JDBC – Anders Swanson demonstrates the new Oracle Database JDBC

📰 FIO Benchmarks Highlight Performance Gains with Hammerspace Tier 0 Architecture on OCI – Oracle Cloud shows new storage benchmark

Oracle Database 23.9 implements the non-positional INSERT statement. In my social media posts, I called out that Oracle Database is

My recent blog post about Oracle Database 23.7 has generated significant interest in one particular feature: materialized columns. In this

📖 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

SQL is a declarative, English-like domain language for querying, analyzing, and manipulating data. SQL originated from relational databases but has