Oracle Database Monthly News – April 2025 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle MAA Certification for Oracle Database@Google Cloud
  • Oracle Database@Google Cloud Achieves MAA Gold: Expanding Mission-Critical Availability: blog post
  • Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle Database@Google Cloud: documentation
  • Implement cross-region disaster recovery for Exadata Database Service on Google Cloud: reference architecture
• Including High Availability and Migration into the Oracle Multicloud Capabilities App: blog post
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D) April News such as  
  • Manage Customer Contacts for Autonomous Database resources: news
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) April News such as
  • Migration from PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server to Oracle SQL: documentation
  • New performance metrics: documentation
  • Use Table Hyperlinks for Read Only Data Access: documentation
  • Additional File Types Supported for Select AI RAG Vector Index Creation: Supported Document Formats
• April 2025 Critical Patch Updates:
  • blog post
  • Release Update 23.8 Features 
  • Oracle AI Vector Search updates with Oracle Database 23ai, Release Update 23 

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025 (world-wide)
• April 30: Data Warehouse Modernization: Leveraging Advanced Capabilities to Unlock Business Insights (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• May: Oracle Dev Tour (Berlin May 6, Bengaluru May 14)
• May 14: Oracle IAM platform update to safeguard your critical assets wherever you are! (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• May 15: Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database – Part 2: Preparation (Virtual Classroom Series Upgrade to Oracle Database 23c)
• May 13-15: APEX Connect –  Europa-Park, Rust
• May 14-15: DOAG Database with Cloud Infrastructure – Europa Park Rust
• May 14-16: Oracle conference in the Nordics (Ferry Oslo | Kiel | Oslo)
• July 1-4: Cloud Native Festival – Heidepark Soltau
• July: OCYatra 2025
• October 13-16: Oracle Cloud World – Las Vegas
• November 18-21: DOAG 2025 Conference + Exhibition – Nuremberg (CFP June 3)
• November 19-20: KI Navigator – Nuremberg (CFP 30 April)
• December 8-12: IT Tage – Frankfurt am Main (CFP 30 April)

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold

• Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap, Doc ID 3068039.1

• Database Release 23.8.0.25.04, 21.18.0.0.250415, 19.27.0.0.250415: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)

• Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.0.1, 13.5.0.25: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 25.1.4.0.0, 24.1.11.0.0, 23.1.25.0.0, 22.1.33.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.26: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• Data Pump Bundle Patch 

  • 19.27,19.26 (Win only) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

  • 23.8: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai (Doc ID 3056856.1)

• AutoUpgrade 25.1.20250212: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880

• AHF 25.3.0: 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 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev

• Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.1.0: Download

• SQLcl 25.1: oracle.com/sqlcl

  • Oracle SQLcl Support Timeline

• ORDS 25.1: oracle.com/ords

  • Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline

• APEX 24.2.4: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 3.1.0: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.8: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 23.7, 21.17, 19.26: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 23.7, 21.17, 19.26: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• New Features and Release Updates in 19c and 23ai (Ulrike Schwinn)
• AutoUpgrade Never Fails, But When It does (Daniel Overby Hansen)
• Snapshots and Clones using ACFS and Exascale Volumes (Allan Graves, Alex Blyth)
• Huge Pages or Transparent Huge Pages in Context of Exadata (Maruto Sharma)
• Small Pages not allowed for SGA from 19.27 and newer on Exadata (Mike Dietrich)
• Spaghetti code is Good code (Connor McDonald)
• More Features just by Patching (Connor McDonald)
• Integrating Oracle Database with GitHub (Witold Swierzy)
• Data in JSON format with Oracle functions and tools (Ulrike Schwinn)
• How to connect via ssh to Database from the Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode (Arne Brüning)
• Oracle Database and Kubernetes – OraOperator v1.2 (Marcel Boermann-Pfeifer)
• Oracle Database auf Kubernetes – Update (German) (Marcel Boermann-Pfeifer)
• Including High Availability and Migration into the Oracle Multicloud Capabilities App (Sinan Petrus Toma)
• SQL Developer for VS Code 25.1: Connection Folders are here! (Jeff Smith)
• Announcing Oracle Machine Learning for Python 2.1 (Mark Hornik)
• DOAG Datenbank Kolumne: DBMS_DEVELOPER – einfache Metadatenabfrage für Developer (German) (Ulrike Schwinn)
• April 2025, Edition #34 ORAWORLD
• Implementing DevOps principles with Oracle Database (White Paper)

• Compiled 23ai links on Github

• Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)

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

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