Oracle Database Monthly News – July 2023 – Quick Links

Our Quick Links issue for July 2023 is available. As usual the links are subdivided in the following different categories:

• News
• Upcoming Events
• Release & Patch Updates
• Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle Announces Oracle Database for Arm Architectures in the Cloud & On-Premises: blog

• Export Data to a Directory as CSV, JSON, Parquet, or XML, or as Oracle Data Pump Dump Files | ADB-S: documentation

• Automatic Failover with a Standby Database | ADB-S: documentation

• Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Oracle Key Vault (OKV) Integration with ExaDB-C@C to Manage Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Keys | Exadata Cloud@Customer: announcement

• Ampere A1 flex shape | Base Database DB Service: announcement

• VM Cluster and Database health/performance metrics in OCI Console for Exadata Cloud@Customer: documentation

• Cloud Premigration Advisor Tool: documentation

• Database Upgrades and Migrations: website

• Oracle Announces the General Availability of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse: announcement

• Essbase 21.5 Release Update for Linux, Windows, and OCI Marketplace listing is available: announcement

• Free Certification for OCI until August 31, 2023: website

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
• August – November: Oracle’s Tech Lounge series 
• September 18–21: Oracle CloudWorld (Las Vegas)
• November 21-24: DOAG 2023 Conference + Exhibition (Nuremberg)
• November 22-23:  KI NAVIGATOR 2023 (CFP until July 3) (Nuremberg)

Release & Patch Updates

• Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – July 2023

• Update Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1

• Database Release 21.11.0.0.230718, 19.20.0.0.230718, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.16: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 23.1.4.0.0, 22.1.1.13.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.19: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

• MiniCluster 1.6.0: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)

• AutoUpgrade version 23.2 Build 20230626 AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• AHF 23.6: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

• DBSAT 2.2.2: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (Doc ID 2138254.1)

• SQL Developer 23.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 23.2: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 23.2: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 23.1.3: oracle.com/apex

• Node.js Driver 6.0.3: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 19.19 and 21.10: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 19.19 and 21.10: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• June 2023 version of AutoUpgrade is available (Mike Dietrich)

• Oracle SQLcl and REST Data Services 23.2 are now available! (Jeff Smith)

• Configure a data loss limit for your local standby’s automatic failover in Autonomous Database (Nilay Panchal)

• A Java Example for Oracle Application Continuity with Oracle Active Data Guard (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• Implementing Oracle Database for Azure with a hub-and-spoke network (Thomas Van Buggenhout/Emiel Ramakers)

• Introducing MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Support (LTS) versions (Kenny Gryp/Airton Lastori)

• Oracle’s generative AI strategy (Greg Pavlik)

• Oracle SQL Tuning Sets (STS) – The foundation for SQL Tuning (Ulrike Schwinn)

• Store Your Credentials in an OCI Vault Secret When Making External Calls from Your Autonomous Database (Can Tuzla)

• Real-Time SQL Monitoring: a MUST for SQL Tuning (Ulrike Schwinn)

• New In-Memory Eligibility Test (Andy Rivenes)

• Introducing the Oracle Database Error Help Portal (Gerald Venzl)

• Oracle Technology GitHub repository (assets created by Oracle product specialist team)

• Database 23c  (oracle.com)

• 23c category (blogs.oracle.com/coretec)

General 

• Oracle Technology Products (Oracle Lifetime Support Policy)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes – Database
• OCI Status for all Services
• Cloud Services Quick Reference

What’s New

• What’s New in Oracle Base Database Service
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2