The new Oracle Database Monthly News issue is online, grouped in the following categories:
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
Here is the edition as PDF slide version.
Database & Cloud Database News
- Oracle Database@Azure
- General availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure and announcing Oracle Base Database Service: blog post
- Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
- Exadata Database Service for Developers: documentation
- Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
- Long-Term Retention: documentation
- Dual Stack (IPv4 and IPv6) Network Support: documentation
- Enhancements for planning Infrastructure Maintenance: documentation
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D) March News such as
- Select AI with Google, Anthropic, and Hugging Face (documentation)
- Dual standby database support in an Autonomous Data Guard configuration: Autonomous Data Guard Models
- Integration with OCI Logging Service: documentation
- Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) March News such as
- Autonomous Database uses Oracle APEX Release 24.2.
- Elastic Pool with Any Workload Leader: documentation
- Documentation Addition: Migrate Existing SQL Execution Plans to Autonomous Database: documentation
- Oracle Data Safe
- It’s easier to rerun failed masking jobs, view masking errors in masking reports, and delete masking reports: documentation
- Sensitive type group: documentation
- Announcing the general availability of Oracle Analytics Server 2025: blog post
- Oracle University Launches the OCI 2025 Networking Professional Certification and Learning Path: posting
- LiveLabs update for Oracle Database 23ai
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025 (world-wide)
- April 2: Deliver your Data Strategy with the Oracle Data Platform (Oracle Tech Lounge)
- April 3: Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database – Part 1: Planning (Virtual Classroom Series Upgrade to Oracle Database 23c)
- April 8-10: Analytics and Data Summit – Redwood Shores
- April 15: Building Low-code applications with APEX and AI (Oracle Tech Lounge)
- April 30: Data Warehouse Modernization: Leveraging Advanced Capabilities to Unlock Business Insights (Oracle Tech Lounge)
- May 15: Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database – Part 2: Preparation (Virtual Classroom Series Upgrade to Oracle Database 23c)
- May 13-15: APEX Connect – Europa-Park, Rust
- May 14-15: DOAG Database with Cloud Infrastructure – Europa Park Rust
- July 1-4: Cloud Native Festival – Heidepark Soltau
- October 13-16: Oracle Cloud World – Las Vegas
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap
Changes: Added 22-Jul-2024 release dates for 23ai on Compute Cloud@Customer and Private Cloud Appliance -
Database Release 23.7.0.25.01, 21.17.0.0.250121, 19.26.0.0.250218: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)
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Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.25: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 25.1.3.0.0, 24.1.10.0.0, 23.1.24.0.0, 22.1.33.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)
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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.26: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
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MiniCluster 1.6.1.3: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)
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Data Pump Bundle Patch
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AutoUpgrade 25.1.20250212: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880
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AHF 25.2.0: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)
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DBSAT 3.1.0: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool(DBSAT)(Doc ID 2138254.1)
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SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev
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SQLcl 24.4.3: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 24.4: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 24.2.3: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 3.0.0: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.7: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
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Instant Client Linux 23.7, 21.17, 19.26: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 23.7, 21.17, 19.26: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
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True Cache and Active Data Guard Transparent JDBC Redirection (Ludovico Caldara)
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How Exadata’s Data-Optimized Storage Drives Extreme Performance and Efficiency (Alex Blyth)
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One-click compliance with Long-term Retention now available in Autonomous Recovery Service (Kelly Smith)
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Enhancing Cloud Cyber Security with Immutable Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service (Alex Goldblatt)
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Exascale User Interfaces and Wallets (Seth Miller)
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DBMS_XMLSCHEMA_UTIL for XML schema validation (Ulrike Schwinn)
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Oracle Database 23.7 Free multi-platform images now available on gvenzl/oracle-free (Gerald Venzl)
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How do find new features in Oracle Release Updates (RUs)? (Mike Dietrich)
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How To Patch Oracle Data Guard Using AutoUpgrade And Standby-First Patch Apply With Restart (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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Why Is the Data Pump Bundle Patch Not Included in Release Updates? (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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AutoUpgrade New Features: Extended Platform Support (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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How to group rows into 5, 10 or 15-minute intervals with Oracle SQL (Chris Saxon)
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How to be prepared for disaster recovery: Database Management HA fleet monitoring (Derik Harlow)
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Unlocking Data for All: Empowering Business Users with AI-Driven Insights (John McHugh)
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Online Migration: Leveraging Oracle GoldenGate (Mike Papio)
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Using TimesTen on Oracle Database Appliance (Jenny Bloom)
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Better error messages and customized audit information (LiveLab)
- Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)
General
- Oracle Technology Products (Oracle Lifetime Support Policy)
- Client / Server Interoperability Support Matrix for Different Oracle Versions (Doc ID 207303.1)
- OCI Status for all Services
- Cloud Services Quick Reference
What’s New
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes – Database
- What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure
- What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
- What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer
- What’s New in Oracle Base Database Service
- What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
- What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
- What’s New for Oracle Data Safe