Our quick links issue for April 2024 is available, listed in the following different categories:
Database & Cloud Database News
General
- New OCI Generative AI Professional Certification free until July 31 for customers and partners (announcement)
- Oracle Autonomous Database Update April 2024: Data Studio, Cloud Operator Access, Cloud Tables, Live Data Sharing, Free Container Image (documentation)
- Provision a VM Cluster with Either an OL7 or OL8-Based Image in Exadata Cloud Service (documentation)
- Restore a backup to create a database across regions in Base Database Service on Oracle Cloud (documentation)
- Exadata System Software Updates – April 2024 (blog post)
- Announcing Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance 23.1 Software Release – Part 1 (announcement)
- The GQL Standard is published! (announcement)
- Larry Ellison: The 100 Most Influential People of 2024 (time.com)
- Essbase 21.5.6.0.0 Release Update Revision (RUR) for Linux and Windows Independent Deployment is available (blog post)
Oracle Database@Azure
- Announcing Oracle MAA Gold Certification: Oracle Database@Azure is Gold Maximum Availability Architecture endorsed
- Oracle MAA documentation: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle Database@Azure
- Oracle MAA Reference Architecture: Learn about Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle Database@Azure
- Annoncing Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) Support: Oracle Zero Downtime Migration for Oracle Database@Azure Migrations
- Announcing Oracle GoldenGate Certification: OCI GoldenGate with Entra ID for integration with Oracle Database@Azure
- Oracle University Training: Oracle Database@Azure Specialist
Tools
- A new version 24.1.0 of CPAT is available
- Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 21 (13.5.0.21) is now available
- SQLcl 24.1 Is Out! Here’s Everything You Need To Know & More — Talke Tech
- Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) Version 24.3 Released
- ORDS version 24.1 is now available, time to upgrade!
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- May 2: Oracle Database + AI: Global Strategy Announcement
- May 7, 8, 14: Real World Database Upgrade and Migration to Oracle Database 19c and 23c (Stockhom/Coenhagen/Frankfurt)
- May 9: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action: CloudVane and the benefits developing it on top of Oracle Autonomous Database in OCI
- May 14: Oracle MAA Summit (Duesseldorf)
- May 14: Oracle DatabaseWorld AI Edition
- May 15: All Oracle DBA Master classes: Oracle Database 23c’s SQL Firewall
- May 15-16: DOAG 2024 Database with Exaday (Duesseldorf)
- 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 23.3.0.23.09, 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 13.5.0.21: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 23.1.13.0.0, 22.1.22.0.0, 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 24.1.240315: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.42: Patch 6880880
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AHF 24.3: 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: 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 2.1.2: 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 19.22 and 21.13: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 19.22 and 21.13: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Oracle ZDM for Oracle Database@Azure Migrations (Sinan Petrus Toma, Thomas Van Buggenhout, Ricardo Gonzalez)
- Setup OCI GoldenGate with Microsoft Entra ID for Seamless Integration with Oracle Database@Azure (Werner He)
- The Need for Speed: Physics, Latency, Emergent Technologies, and the Future of Enterprise Database Transactions (Francisco Munoz Alvarez)
- The Fundamentals of Reliability in the Context of Distributed Databases – Part 1 (Francisco Munoz Alvarez)
- Exadata Real-Time Insight – Quick Start (Alex Blyth)
- Maximize database performance with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Linux (Gursewak Sokhi, Alex Blyth)
- Switching services on Autonomous now easier (Connor Mc Donald)
- Oracle Database: Download, Install, Tutorial… My Getting Started Guide (Loïc Lefèvre)
- I Need Patch 35836860. Is It in 19.21.0? (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- SQLcl: new lb generate-schema option to overwrite files (Martin Bach)
- Fast Lookup with Memory Optimized Rowstore (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Text Index with Automatic Maintenance (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Proper SQL comes to MongoDB applications .. with the Oracle Database! (Hermann Baer)
- Getting up to speed with Oracle Application Express (APEX)(Niels de Bruijn)
- Using ORDS to Make Your ADB Data Available in VBS (Podcast)
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
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