Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
May 20, 2026
Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.
News Flashes
After introducing the MCP Server for Oracle AI Database through Oracle SQLcl last summer, the company is releasing the new OCI Managed MCP Service for Oracle AI Database. This provides native, managed MCP Servers as part of the OCI Database Tools Service, giving customers a cloud-native, HTTPS-based way to connect AI agents and assistants to Oracle databases running in the cloud.
Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are now offering Oracle AI Database@AWS to customers in Switzerland. With the offering's debut in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within AWS.
Oracle announced that the Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription will help standardize global software development at Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology.
Think About It
Most organizations spend a great deal of time thinking about database performance. DBAs tune SQL, design indexes, and monitor workloads to ensure that applications run quickly and efficiently. Performance is important, of course, but there is another attribute that can be even more critical: resilience.