Oracle Database Monthly News – March 2023 – Quick Links

Our Quick Links issue for March 2023 is available. As usual the links are subdivided into the following categories:

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

Database & Cloud Database News

• Introducing Backup-Based Disaster Recovery: A low-cost DR option for databases with higher RTO tolerance: announcement

• Keep backups long-term (upto 10 years!) on Autonomous Database, fully managed by Oracle: announcement

• Long-Term Backups (up to 10 years) on Autonomous Dedicated! announcement

• Oracle Zero Downtime Migration 21.4: new release

• Create Data Guard Associations Across Regions for Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: new feature

• Oracle Base Database Service Integration with Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service: new feature

• Oracle Cloud Maximum Availability Architecture Overview: new version

• Exadata System Software Release 23.1: new release

• Oracle Analytics technical support videos are available: videos

• Oracle Releases Java 20: new release

• Oracle is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2022: report

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• April 19: Hybrid Pluggable Database as a Service for DevOps (masterclass) 
• April, May: Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2023 (Singapore, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, London, Sao Paulo) 
• May 3-4: APEX connect (Berlin) 
• May 24-25: DOAG 2023 DATABASE WITH EXADAY (Duesseldorf) (early bird price until April 19)
• June 20-23: CloudLand 2023 (Bruehl) (early bird price until May 9)
• On-demand: DBA 2023 Data Masterclasses

Release & Patch Updates

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

• Sunsetting of 19c RURs and FAQ: Doc ID 2898381.1

• Introducing Monthly Recommended Patches (MRPs) and FAQ: Doc ID 2898740.1

• Database Release 21.9.0.0.230117, 19.18.0.0.230321, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.13: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 23.1.0.0.0, 21.2.22: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.18: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• AutoUpgrade version 23.1 Build 20230224  AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• AHF 23.2: 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 22.2.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 22.4: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 22.4.4: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 22.2.4: oracle.com/apex

• Node.js Driver 5.5: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 19.18 and 21.9: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 19.18 and 21.9: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• Move virtual machines between OCI regions using Full Stack Disaster Recovery (Vasudeva Manikandan)

• ODSA versus the OCI-Azure Interconnect (Niranjan Mohapatra)

• Enterprise Manager In-Memory Central (Andy Rivenes)

• March 2023 release of AutoUpgrade is available (Mike Dietrich)

• Get started with Oracle Application Continuity (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• The Evolution of Online Analytical Processing in the Oracle Database (William Endress)

• How to Export Data in Parquet format from Autonomous Database tables to your cloud object store (Nilay Panchal)

• A patch (RU, OJVM, 32-bit) is not available yet – where will I find information? (Mike Dietrich)

• First Quarterly Update on Oracle Graph (2023) (Rahul Tasker)

• Mission Critical Patching for Autonomous Database (Robert Greene)

• Oracle database discussion with ChatGPT (Julian Dontcheff)

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
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure – New Feature Announcements
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2