This is our Monthly News December edition – the last one in 2024.
As always you will find the news in the following categories:
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
The entire Oracle Database Monthly News team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope you will continue to read our issues next year.
And here an impression from our last editorial meeting with our new oracle database monthly news work t-shirts – from left to right Frank, Sinan, Ulrike, Wolfgang, Marcus, and Detlef.
Database & Cloud Database News
- Oracle Database@AWS Available in Limited Preview
- OCI Full Stack DR
- Support for ExaDB-D in Oracle Database@Azure – demo
- Support for ADB-D and ADB-C@C – blog post
- Clone and update Disaster Recovery Plans – documentation
- Exadata System Software 25.1 – blog post
- Enterprise Manager 24ai (24.1.0.0) is released now
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D): ADB-D December News
- Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) on Oracle Public Cloud deployments – documentation
- Doc update: Overview of an Exadata Infrastructure (EI) – documentation
- Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S): ADB-S December News
- New SQL Query Performance and Refreshable Clone events – documentation
- Announcing the Limited Availability of Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure – blog post
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- Jan 29: Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai (Live Webinar)
- On-Demand webinars (Oracle DBA Masterclass)
- On-Demand workshops (Oracle Tech Lounge)
- Jan 29: Retraced boosts their business using Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search and other Oracle AI services (Customer Webcasts: Autonomous in Action)
- 2025: Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025 (world-wide)
- 2025: APEX Connect (Europa-Park, Rust)
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap
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Database Release 23.6.0.24.10, 21.16.0.0.241015, 19.25.0.0.241119, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)
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Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.24: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 25.1.0.0.0, 24.1.7.0.0, 23.1.21.0.0, 22.1.30.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)
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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.25: 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 24.8.241119: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880
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AHF 24.11: 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 24.3.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 24.4: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 24.1.7: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 2.5.1: 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 23.6, 21.16, 19.25: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 23.6, 21.15, 19.25: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Simplified Exadata Platform Migrations with Data Guard in Oracle Cloud (Sinan Petrus Toma, Sebastian Solbach)
- How long can I request a backport for Oracle Database RUs? (Mike Dietrich)
- Data Pump Bundle Patch for Oracle Database 23ai (Mike Dietrich)
- Should you attempt double-hop Oracle Database upgrades? (Mike Dietrich)
- Patch list in MOS Note: 555.1 is not conflict-free (Mike Dietrich)
- The Sky is Blue from now on! (Mike Dietrich)
- AutoUpgrade New Features: Drop Database Link When Using Refreshable Clones (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- AutoUpgrade New Features: Upgrade RMAN Catalog Schema (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- Fast Refresh Materialized Views and Migrations Using Transportable Tablespaces (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- Fast Refresh Materialized Views and Migrations Using GoldenGate (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- Reflections On 2024 (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- CPAT New Features – Cloud Premigration Advisor Tool – Part 6 (Alex Zapalla)
- Oracle Connection Manager 23ai – was es (nicht nur unter Kubernetes) zu beachten gilt (in German) (Marcel Boermann-Pfeifer)
- Complete listing of posts (Connor McDonald)
- Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode (Kris Rice)
- ORAWORLD Magazine Issue #33/2024
- Compiled 23ai links on Github
- 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