Oracle Database Monthly News – June 2024 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle Database 23ai Free is now available for Windows platform – download
• How To Migrate Your Always Free Autonomous Database 21c to Always Free Autonomous Database 23ai – blog post
• Oracle Autonomous Database Now Generally Available on Oracle Database@Azure – press release
  • Discover Oracle Database@Azure a new opportunity for developers – video (45 min)
  • Microsoft and Oracle come together with Oracle Database@Azure – video (15 min)
  • Explore Oracle Database@Azure with Oracle and Microsoft expert – video (5 min)
• OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform – press release
• Oracle and Google Cloud Announce a Groundbreaking Multicloud Partnership – press release
  • Accelerating cloud transformation with Google Cloud and Oracle – announcement
  • Introducing Oracle Database@Google Cloud – demo
  • Step-by-Step Guide: Interconnecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud – blog post
• Google Cloud is “Authorized Cloud Environment” – licensing information
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless supports multiple cross-region Autonomous Data Guard standby databases – blog post
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless supports local and cross-region Autonomous Data Guard standby databases in different tenancies – documentation
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless supports TCP Fast Open – documentation
  • Best Practices for Low Latency Connections with Autonomous Database – documentation
• Customer-managed keys in Oracle Key Vault (OKV) for Oracle Public Cloud deployments of Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure – documentation
• Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database Now Supports Oracle Database 23ai – product page
• Ability to Increase the Size of Guest VM Local File Systems for Exadata Cloud Service and Exadata Cloud@Customer – ExaDB-D documentation, ExaDB-C@C documentation

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• July 3: Oracle DBA Master classes – Database 23ai Deep Dive: Bring AI to Data with Vector Search
• July 11: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action: Schneider Electric Revolutionises HR Insights with Oracle Autonomous Database and Analytics Cloud
• July 24:  Oracle DBA Master classes – Database 23ai Deep-Dive: Accelerate Applications 10x with True Cache
• 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

• Update Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1 
  (Changes: new release dates for Oracle Autonomous Database – Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, ODA, Exadata and Linux-x86 64)

• Database Release 23.4.0.23.09, 21.14.0.0.240416, 19.23.0.0.240618, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.22: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata System Software Updates – February 2024

• Exadata Storage server 24.1.1.0.0, 23.1.15.0.0, 22.1.24.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.23: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

• MiniCluster 1.6.1.3: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)

• Datapump Bundle Patch 19.23: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

• AutoUpgrade 24.4.240426: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.42: Patch 6880880

• AHF 24.5: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

• DBSAT 3.1.0: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool(DBSAT)(Doc ID 2138254.1)

• SQL Developer 23.1.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 24.1: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 24.1.1: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 24.1: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 2.2.1: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.5: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 23.4, 21.14, 19.23: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 23.4, 21.14, 19.23: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• RUN ORACLE 23AI AS A FREE AUTONOMOUS DB CONTAINER ON YOUR MAC (Shadab Mohammad)
• Exadata System Software Updates – June 2024 (Alex Blyth)
• Oracle Database Advisors (Ulrike Schwinn)
• Achieve Minimal Downtime for your Exadata Cloud@Customer Migrations with Oracle ZDM and GoldenGate on Docker (Sinan Petrus Toma)
• How to Plug In an Unplugged PDB into a Different File Location (Sinan Petrus Toma)
• Analysts react to MySQL HeatWave Gen AI and vector store innovations (Roxanne Bradley)
• Get Started with OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms (1/5) – Deployment Creation (Julien Testut)
• Get Started with OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms (2/5) – Connectivity (Julien Testut)

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

• What’s New in Oracle Base Database Service
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes – Database