Our June edition is available! As usual, the various topics can be found in the following categories:
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- General Information and What’s New Links
The PDF slide version can be found here.
Database & Cloud Database News
Multicloud News
- Oracle AI Database@AWS news, e.g.:
- Oracle AI Database@AWS supports Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (in US West and East)
- Oracle AI Database@AWS supports Public Offer for Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless
- Regional availability summary
- Oracle AI Database@Azure news, e.g.:
- Oracle AI Database@Azure supports early maintenance for Oracle Autonomous AI Database in the Germany West Central region
- Oracle AI Database@Azure supports Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure in the following regions: Canada East (Quebec), Central India (Pune), UAE North (Dubai)
- More news about regional availability summary
- Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud news, e.g.:
- Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud supports Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure and Oracle Base Database Service in the Osaka, Japan region
- Regional availability summary
Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) news, e.g.:
- Lake Cache for Mounted Catalog Tables
- Manage Oracle Cloud Operator Access
- SharePoint support in
DBMS_CLOUD DBMS_SHARESubprograms to share profile generation, credential creation, profile validation, and provider subscription management.
Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure news, e.g.:
- Additional administrative controls for maintenance and recovery operations
- Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer-managed keys with Cross-region Data Guard for Autonomous AI Database on Oracle Database@AWS.
- Manageability enhancements for Autonomous Exadata VM Clusters and Autonomous Container Databases
Oracle Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure (ADB-D):
- ExaDB-XS is available in the region US Midwest (Chicago)
- Oracle Managed Database Software Updates with Release Date June 2026
- More news: what’s new
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer news, e.g.:
- Monthly Infrastructure Maintenance Update Preferences: what’s new
General
- Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory 26.4: new features
- Oracle Data Safe Promotion for On-Premises Oracle Databases: release notes
- Promotion für Security Tools: posting
- Deep Data Security: FAQ, Deep Data Security (oracle.com), Oracle Deep Data Security Guide
- New Experience in Oracle Cloud Console: release notes
- Oracle AI Database 23.26.2 Free is now available: download
- MCP for Essbase: posting
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours
- Monthly Oracle APEX Events
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Events
- DOAG Events
- June 29 – July 7: AI Engineer World’s Fair (San Francisco)
- July 21: Oracle Multicloud Workshop mit Microsoft (Munich)
- September 23: Exadata Meet the Experts – Vector Search on Exadata in action: AI city demo (Live Webinar)
- October 25-28: Oracle AI World 2026 (Las Vegas)
- November 17-19: DOAG Conference (Nuremberg)
- November 18-19: DOAG KI Navigator (Nuremberg)
- December 07–10: IT Tage (Frankfurt)
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Critical Security Patch Updates – CSPUs:
Oracle Critical Security Patch Update Advisory – June 2026
FAQ7719 – Introducing Critical Security Patch Updates (CSPUs) and FAQ - Release Schedule of Current Database Releases:
(PNEWS1360) Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (742060.1)
(PNEWS1470) Oracle AI Database Cloud-First, Developer-First Strategy for the 26ai Release
(3068039.1)
(KB112119) Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (161818.1) - Database Release 23.26.2.0.0, 21.22.0.0.260421, 19.31.0.0.260421: (KB106822) Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (888.1)
- Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.8, 13.5.0.29: (PNEWS1689) Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (822485.1)
- Exadata Storage Server 26.1.0.0.0, 25.2.11.0.0: (KB153930) Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (888828.1)
- Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.31: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
- Data Pump Bundle Patch:
- 19.31,19.31 (Win only): (KB107134) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (2819284.1)
- 23.26.2: (KB160561) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai / 26ai (3056856.1)
- AutoUpgrade 26.3: (KB123450) AutoUpgrade Tool (2485457.1)
- OPatch 12.2.0.1.51 for DB 23.0.0.0.0 (Apr 2026): Patch 6880880
- Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 26.3.1: (KB858617) Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including Trace File Analyzer and Orachk/Exachk (2550798.1)
- DBSAT 4.2: (KB101686) Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (2138254.1)
- SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev
- Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 26.1.2: download
- SQLcl 26.1.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
- ORDS 26.1.2: oracle.com/ords: release notes
- APEX 26.1.1: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
- Python Driver 4.0.1: python-oracledb Release Notes
- Node.js Driver 7.0: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
- Instant Client Linux 23.26.2, 21.22, 19.31:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html - Instant Client Windows 23.26.2, 21.22, 19.31:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Select AI by Release: A Quick Guide to 26ai and 19c Capabilities (Mark Hornick)
- Build Machine Learning Pipelines Without Code using Oracle Machine Learning Workflow (Mark Hornick)
- Oracle Data Science Agent: Conversational Machine Learning in Autonomous AI Database (Mark Hornick)
- Creating Your First Custom SQL Tools for MCP (Justin Biard)
- Making Select AI Smarter with Database Annotations (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Hands-On Hybrid Vector Search with Oracle Database 26ai (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory 26.4: Build, Integrate, and Operate Enterprise AI Agents with More Control (Allen Hosler)
- Who is using your Oracle data (AI!), and how to secure it! (Jeff Smith)
- Deep Data Security in Action: Using Custom End User Security Context with OCI IAM (Thomas Minne)
- Executing long running SQL over HTTPS, Asynchronously (Jeff Smith)
- AI Vector Search : Generating vectors outside of the database using Ollama and EmbeddingGemma (Tim Hall)
- Controlled Oracle Actions with SQLcl MCP (Mark Nelson)
- Oracle AI Database: Agentic AI for Mission-Critical Data (YouTube)
- Go From Questions to Insights with Oracle AI Database 26ai (Gloria Hughes)
- AI for Oracle DB Professionals – Part 2: A DBA’s First Entry Point into AI (Sushil Motwani)
- Major new capabilities in Oracle AI Database API for MongoDB (Jean-Pierre (JP) Dijcks)
- [26ai] JOIN_TO_ME (David Sanz)
- Oracle API for MongoDB: Building and Scaling On-Premises Deployments (Witold Swierzy)
- Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (Fayner Brack)
- Oracle Optimizer Glossary (Nigel Bayliss)
- Reading List – June 2026 #1 (Gerald Venzl)
- CPU, CSPU, MRP, RU – some clarifications (Mike Dietrich)
- How to Make Oracle AI Database Patching Easier (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- TDE health-check (Peter Wahl)
- Oracle ZDM Instant Deploy (Sinan Petrus Toma)
- PDB Cloning with Oracle ZDM (Sinan Petrus Toma)
- Modern Oracle Database Workloads Need More Than General-Purpose Infrastructure (Natarajan Shankar)
- Introducing the Oracle AI Database Free MacOS app (Gerald Venzl)
General Information and What’s New Links
General Information
- Oracle Multicloud Capabilities App
- Oracle Database@AWS
- Regional availability summary
- Oracle Database@Azure
- Regional availability summary
- Oracle Database@Google Cloud
- Regional availability summary
- 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
- Oracle Autonomous Database Third-Party Applications—Validation and Compatibility
“What’s New” Links
- What’s new in Oracle AI Database@AWS
- What’s new in Oracle AI Database@Azure
- What’s new in Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
- 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 Exascale Infrastructure
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
- What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
- What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
- What’s New for Oracle Data Safe
- New Features in Enterprise Manager by Release Update
- New Features in 19c Release Updates
- Oracle AI Database 26ai Release Updates
- What’s New for Oracle AI Vector Search
- Select AI and Select AI Agent Compatibility Matrix