Our summer quick links issue for July 2024 is available:
Database & Cloud Database News
- Oracle announces Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) – press release
- Exadata Exascale – World’s Only Intelligent Data Architecture for Cloud – blog
- Introducing Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure – blog
- Provision Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure – video (5 min)
- Provision Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure – tutorial
- Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure – documentation
- Oracle Exadata Exascale User’s Guide (PDF) – documentation
- Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB-S): all ADB-S July News
- Autonomous Database with database version Oracle Database 23ai is now available in the paid tier – link
- Enable Caching with RESULT_CACHE Hint for a Cloud Link Consumer – documentation
- Connect Go Applications to Autonomous Database – documentation
- Build JSON search index on documents residing in files stored in Object Storage – documentation
- Database Actions Data Studio new features – News page
- Oracle Key Vault 21.9 – oracle.com
- OCI Database Management with Data Guard monitoring and Metric Extensions monitoring – blog
- Oracle Enterprise Manager (version – 13.5-RU22) image in all regions – marketplace
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- August 7: Oracle Tech Lounge: Build an Innovative Q&A Interface Powered by Generative AI with Oracle APEX
- August 8: Analytics and Data Techcasts: Easily Build Analytics Applications Using APEX and Analytic View
- August 15: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action: 11880 goes Autonomous – Moving all Applications to Autonomous Database on OCI
- August 21: Oracle Tech Lounge: Maximize Your Business Impact with New Innovations from Oracle Analytics
- September 9-12: Oracle CloudWorld 2024 (Las Vegas)
- November 19-22: DOAG User Conference 2024 (Nuremberg)
- November 20-21: AI Navigator 2024 (Nuremberg)
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory: July 2024
- Update Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1
(Updated Oracle Database Appliance and Exadata release dates to 22-Jul-2024 and release date for Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure to 28-Jun-2024) -
Database Release 23.5.0.24.07, 21.15.0.0.240416, 19.24.0.0.240716, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)
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Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.22: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 24.1.2.0.0, 23.1.16.0.0, 22.1.25.0.0, 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) 19.23: 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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Datapump Bundle Patch 19.24: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)
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AutoUpgrade 24.5.240701: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880
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AHF 24.6: 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 23.1.1: oracle.com/sqldev
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SQLcl 24.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 24.2.2: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 24.1.2: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 2.2.1: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.5: 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 23.4, 21.14, 19.23: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- ORAWORLD (e-magazine for Oracle user) July Edition #23
- Different handling of UNLIMITED QUOTA when you revoke the DBA role between 11.2.0.4 and future releases (Mike Dietrich)
- Deriving Value from Data for Oracle Database@Azure Workloads with OCI GoldenGate (Suzanne Holliday, Julien Testut, Thomas Van Buggenhout)
- Extreme Oracle Database Connection Scalability with Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) (Paper)
- Automate Database Role Changes in Data Guard (Suraj Ramesh)
- SQL Transpiler in 23c – automatic PL/SQL conversion into SQL (Ulrike Schwinn)
- APEX 24.1: REST Data Sources and nested JSON responses (Carsten Czarski)
- The JSON-To-Duality Migrator in Oracle Database 23ai (Julian Dontcheff)
- SQLcl 24.2 Is Out! Here’s Everything You Need To Know and More (Zachary Talke)
- New assets on Github for DB Replay (Real Application Testing) (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Oracle Database 23ai: Building Generative AI Applications with Oracle APEX 24.1 (Madhusudhan Rao)
- Getting started with vectors in 23ai (Stephane Duprat, Ulrike Schwinn)
- Now Available! Pre-built Embedding Generation model for Oracle Database 23ai (Sherry LaMonica)
- Migrating Oracle Data Integrator to Data Transforms (Jayant Mahto, Anil Menon)
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