Our quick links issue for October 2024 is available:
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
Database & Cloud Database News
- Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB-S): all ADB-S October News
e.g.- Control Lockdown Profile Errors – documentation
- Customer-Managed Encryption Keys with the following Azure Key Vault, AWS Key Management System (KMS) and Oracle Key Vault (OKV) – documentation
- Zero Trust Packet Routing – documentation
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D): all ADB-D October News
e.g.- Ability to create a cross tenancy Autonomous Data Guard Standby Database – documentation
- Export data to Cloud Object Storage as Parquet – documentation
- OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery Support for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS): blog
- OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery announces limited availability for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE): blog
- Different RUs for Primary and Standby DB Homes in Data Guard Associations, Switchover, and Failover Operations (ExaDB C@C): news
- Oracle SQL Firewall Frequently Asked Questions – pdf
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2024 – documentation
- New SwingBench Version: download
- New DB-Engines Ranking: page
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- November 6: Deep Dive into Oracle Data Guard 23ai (Oracle DBA Masterclass)
- November 13: Ensure Oracle Database High Availability in Multicloud Environments (Oracle Tech Lounge)
- November 27: Power Your Green IT with Database Innovations (Oracle Tech Lounge)
- November 28: Vodafone moves 1000s of databases to Oracle Autonomous Database (Customer Webcasts: Autonomous in Action)
- November 19-22: DOAG User Conference 2024 (Nuremberg)
- November 20-21: AI Navigator 2024 (Nuremberg)
- December 9-12: IT Tage (Frankfurt)
- 2025: Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025 (world-wide)
- 2025: APEX Connect (Europa-Park, Rust)
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2024
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1
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Database Release 23.6.0.24.10, 21.16.0.0.241015, 19.25.0.0.241015, 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 13.5.0.23: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 24.1.5.0.0, 23.1.19.0.0, 22.1.28.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)
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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.24: 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 19.25: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)
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AutoUpgrade 24.6.240905: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880
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AHF 24.9: 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: oracle.com/sqldev
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SQLcl 24.3: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 24.3.0: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 24.1.5: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 2.4.1: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.6: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
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Instant Client Linux 23.4, 21.14, 19.23: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 23.5, 21.15, 19.24: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Starting with CPAT – Cloud Premigration Advisor Tool – Part 1 (Alex Zaballa)
- VIEWS_AS_TABLES – A Hidden Data Pump Gem (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- More about cleaning up datapatch patching files (Mike Dietrich)
- Loading Data from Google Cloud Storage to Oracle Database (Sinan Petrus Toma)
- Your Options to Migrate Data Into Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure (Sinan Petrus Toma)
- Whenever you think that things cannot get better with the Oracle MongoDB API … (Hermann Baer)
- Looking for support dates for Oracle Middleware, GoldenGate, JDK and more? (Mike Dietrich)
- Generative AI Integration with DBMS_CLOUD_AI (YouTube)
- Monitoring, Analyzing, Diagnosing SQL Statements (YouTube)
- JSON Relational Duality Views (YouTube)
- Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)
- Oracle SQL Firewall Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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