Our quick links issue for May 2024 is available in the following categories:
Database & Cloud Database News
- Announcing Oracle Database 23ai: Bring AI to your data (video announcement)
- Autonomous Database on Oracle Free Tier (web page)
- Always Free Autonomous Database 23ai (documentation)
- Download Autonomous Database Free Container Image
- Installing Oracle Database 23ai Free
- Oracle Database 23ai Brings the Power of AI to Enterprise Data and Applications (press release)
- New OCI Generative AI Professional Certification free until July 31 for customers and partners (announcement)
- Now automatically refresh Refreshable Clones on Autonomous Database (blog post)
- Cloud Links for Read Only Data Access on Autonomous Database (documentation)
- What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (all news)
- Announcing Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance 23.1 Software Release – Part 1 (blog post)
- Exadata System Software 24ai – Delivers mission critical AI at any scale (blog post)
- ExaDB-D on Oracle Database@Azure support for automatic backups to Autonomous Recovery Service in OCI (documentation)
- Backup and Restore from a Standby Database with Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service on Oracle Base Database Service (tutorial)
- Manage Serial Console Access to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure Systems (documentation)
- OCI Database Management now supports monitoring Exadata Cloud@Customer databases (blog post)
- Autonomous Health Framework Version 24.4 Released (blog post)
- SQL Developer Extension for VS Code v24.1 is now available (blog post)
- Oracle Linux 9.4 is released (download)
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- June 6: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action: Deutsche Bank is moving 1000s of databases into Oracle Exadata Cloud and Autonomous Database
- June 12: All Oracle DBA Master classes: Database 23ai Deep-Dive: JSON/Relational Duality
- 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
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Database Release 23.4.0.23.09, 21.14.0.0.240416, 19.23.0.0.240416, 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 24.1.0.0.0, 23.1.14.0.0, 22.1.23.0.0, 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) 19.22: 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 19.23: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)
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AutoUpgrade 24.4.240426: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.42: Patch 6880880
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AHF 24.4: 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 23.1: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 24.1.1: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 23.2.6: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 2.2.0: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.4: 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 21.13, 19.22: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Oracle Zero Downtime Migration – Physical Online Migration to ExaDB-D on Oracle Database@Azure (Technical Brief)
- Database Development Champions – Are Cloud Databases fast enough for Hardcore OLTP (YouTube)
- Migrate Data from On-prem Oracle 11g Database to OCI with Minimal downtime using OCI Database Migration (DMS) (Jorge Martinez, Sanoj Behera)
- Data Pump and Faster Export of SecureFile LOBs (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- Why and How to Backup your Oracle Database to OCI Object Storage Immutable Bucket (Sinan Petrus Toma)
- Database Performance Tuning – 5 Steps to Resolve Issues (Gareth Chapman)
Selected Oracle Database 23ai posts and videos (*)
- Announcing Oracle Database 23ai General Availability (Dominic Giles)
- Oracle Database 23ai is available in the cloud and as Free (Mike Dietrich)
- Try Oracle Database 23ai for Free (George Lumpkin)
- Oracle Database 23ai: Where to find information (Dominic Giles, Killian Lynch)
- Oracle Announces General Availability of AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai (Doug Hood, Ranjan Priyadarshi)
- Oracle Database 23ai: AI Made Simple for Enterprise (Youtube)
- Get Started with Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search (Adrian Png)
- High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery with Oracle Database 23ai (Markus Michalewicz)
- Exploring the Maximum Availability Architecture Gold MAA Tier with Oracle Database 23ai (Glen Hawkins)
- Oracle Globally Distributed Database supports RAFT Replication in Oracle Database 23ai (Pankaj Chandiramani)
- ETags with Oracle Database tables (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Getting started with True Cache in Oracle Database 23ai FREE (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Powering on with SQL*Plus for Oracle Database 23ai (Christopher Jones)
- AI and Converged Data: Oracle’s Strategy for Data Management (YouTube)
(*) more links on Oracle Database 23ai GitHub
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