Our July 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 now supports AWS Secrets Manager for Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless
- Oracle AI Database@AWS now supports both physical zones of the Europe (Paris) region
- Regional availability summary
- Oracle AI Database@Azure news, e.g.:
- Oracle AI Database@Azure now supports resizing DATA, RECO, and SPARSE ASM disk groups for Exadata VM Clusters
- Oracle AI Database@Azure now supports New VM.BaseDB.x86 flexible shape for Base Database
- Regional availability summary
- Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud news, e.g.:
- Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud now supports X11MV infrastructure for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
- Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud now supports new VM.BaseDB.x86 flexible shape for Base Database
- Oracle AI Database@Azure now supports X11MV infrastructure for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
- Regional availability summary
Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) news, e.g.:
- Oracle APEX 26.1
- Expose Select AI Agent team as agent through A2A protocol
- External Authentication Support for Database Tools in Autonomous AI Database
- Availability Domain Selection in Autonomous AI Database
Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure news, e.g.:
- X11MV systems available for Autonomous AI Database on Oracle Public Cloud and Multicloud deployments (posting)
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer news, e.g.:
- Support for Exadata X11 and X11M Storage Server Configurations
General News
- Announcing Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer (posting)
- Database Developer Portal for Database Tools (what’s new)
- Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool 4.3 (documentation)
- Security and Platform Updates in Oracle Key Vault 21.15 (posting)
- Release Update July 2026
- Oracle AI Database Release Update 23.26.3 New Features:
- Release Update 19.32: New Features
- Oradiff Utility
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours
- Monthly Oracle APEX Events
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Events
- DOAG Events
- Developer Coaching Events
- 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
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – July 2026
- Critical Patch Updates, Critical Security Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases:
Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (PNEWS1360/742060.1)
Oracle AI Database Cloud-First, Developer-First Strategy for the 26ai Release (PNEWS1470/3068039.1)
Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (KB112119/161818.1) - Database Release 23.26.3.0.0, 21.22.0.0.260721, 19.32.0.0.260721: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (KB106822/888.1)
- Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.11, 13.5.0.32: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (PNEWS1689/822485.1)
- Exadata Storage Server 26.1.1.0.0, 25.2.12.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (KB153930/888828.1), Exadata System Software Updates – July 2026
- Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.32: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
- Data Pump Bundle Patch:
- 19.32,19.31 (Win only): Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (KB107134/2819284.1)
- 23.26.2: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai / 26ai (KB160561/3056856.1)
- AutoUpgrade 26.4: AutoUpgrade Tool (KB123450/2485457.1)
- OPatch 12.2.0.1.52 for DB 23.0.0.0.0 (Jul 2026): Patch 6880880
- Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 26.5.2: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including Trace File Analyzer and Orachk/Exachk (KB858617/2550798.1)
- DBSAT 4.3: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (KB101686/2138254.1)
- SQL Developer 26.2: oracle.com/sqldev
- Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 26.2: download
- SQLcl 26.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
- ORDS 26.2.1: oracle.com/ords: release notes
- APEX 26.1.2: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
- Python Driver 4.0.2: python-oracledb Release Notes
- Node.js Driver 7.0: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
- Instant Client Linux 23.26.3, 21.22, 19.31:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html - Instant Client Windows 23.26.3, 21.22, 19.31:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Oracle APEX Newsletter July 2026
- Putting Customers First, Together: A Year of Oracle AI Database@AWS and What’s Next (Nathan Thomas, Ganapathy (G2) Krishnamoorthy)
- Tirthankar Lahiri in theCUBE interview about embedding agentic AI capabilities directly into the database (YouTube)
- Interview mit Tirthankar Lahiri mit der DOAG
- Teil 1: “Was ich an der DOAG besonders schätze, ist die Möglichkeit zum direkten Austausch”
- Teil 2: “Die erfolgreichsten KI-Systeme werden leistungsstarke Modelle mit vertrauenswürdigen und gut verwalteten Daten kombinieren”
- Teil 3: “Datenbanken werden sich zu intelligenten Plattformen entwickeln und nicht länger nur als passive Speicher- und Zugriffssysteme dienen.”
- Deep Data Research Agent: Five Alarms, 2,583 Pages, One Decision (Allen Hosler)
- One Database for the Whole LangChain Ecosystem: Memory, Persistence, and Deep Agents on Oracle AI Database (Richmond Alake)
- Implement an Oracle-Backed Semantic Cache for Spring Applications (Mark Nelson)
- Securely Generate Vector Embeddings from within Oracle AI Database 26ai using a local Ollama server (Ron Ekin)
- LangGraph persistence with Oracle AI Database (Anderson Swanson)
- Announcing Oracle AI Database Vector Store Connector Support for Microsoft Agent Framework (Alex Keh)
- Schema Discovery Agent (Building the Data Foundation for Enterprise NL2SQL and Agentic AI) (Harihara Vijayakumar, Shravya Madhyastha)
- ORDS: now a streaming HTTP MCP Server for Oracle Database (Jeff Smith)
- Oracle API for MongoDB: considerations for complex architectures (Witold Swierzy)
- How to Install Oracle AI Database 26ai Free on Windows (Step by Step) (YouTube)
- Prepare Now: Apply the Upcoming Oracle Database Release Update Immediately Upon Availability (Vipin Samar)
- Upgrade to 26ai may hang due to block checking events (Mike Dietrich)
- AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 4: Download Examples (Mike Dietrich)
- New Power Management Capabilities for Oracle Database Appliance X11 (Carlos Ortiz, Paul Tsien)
- Exascale Snapshots and Clones: Core Concepts (Alex Blyth)
- Exadata Continues to Drive Exceptional Value for Oracle Database Workloads (Bob Thome)
- Query the Murder – a SQL learning game built around Agatha Christie’s classic murder mysteries
- Information about Oracle Deep Data Security:
- Oracle Deep Data Security (Technical Brief)
- Deep Data Security for Developers (oracle.com)
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
- Global Database Metrics for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless
- Oracle Technology Products (Oracle Lifetime Support Policy)
- Client / Server Interoperability Support Matrix for Different Oracle Versions (Doc ID 207303.1)
- When AI meets the Database: Oracle’s Vision for the Future of DBA Work (Tirthankar Lahiri @DOAG Interview)
- OCI Status for all Services
- Oracle Autonomous Database Third-Party Applications—Validation and Compatibility
- Oracle Skills (GitHub)
“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
- Changes in This Release for Oracle Deep Data Security
- 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