Oracle Database Monthly News – August 2023 – Quick Links

Our Quick Links issue for August 2023 is available. As usual you will find links subdivided in the following different categories:

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

Database & Cloud Database News

• Free Certification for OCI until September 30, 2023: website

• Announcing Exadata Fleet Update: blog post

• Database In-Memory Column Store support for Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure in OCI and Exadata Cloud@Customer: documentation

• Introducing Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer: blog post

• Design a multicloud disaster recovery solution with Oracle Database Service for Azure: reference architecture

• Compute Models in Autonomous Database (OCPU and ECPU): documentation

• Manage Serial Console Access to ExaDB-C@C Systems: documentation

• Oracle Key Vault (OKV) Integration with ExaDB-C@C to Manage Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Keys: documentation

• Autonomous Recovery Service as the Default Backup Destination: documentation

• Third Quarterly Update on Oracle Graph (2023): blog post

• Announcing OML Data Monitoring User Interface on Autonomous Database: blog post

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
• August – November: Oracle’s Tech Lounge series 
• September 18–21: Oracle CloudWorld (Las Vegas)
• November 21-24: DOAG 2023 Conference + Exhibition (Nuremberg)
• November 22-23:  KI NAVIGATOR 2023 (CFP until July 3) (Nuremberg)

Release & Patch Updates

• Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – July 2023

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

• Database Release 21.11.0.0.230718, 19.20.0.0.230815, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.16: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 23.1.4.0.0, 22.1.1.13.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.20: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• AutoUpgrade version 23.2 Build 20230626 AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• AHF 23.7: 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 23.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 23.2: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 23.2.2: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 23.1.4: oracle.com/apex

• Python Driver 1.4.0: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.1.0: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 19.20 and 21.11: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 19.20 and 21.10: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• 2 years of Extended Support get waived for Oracle Database 19c (Mike Dietrich)

• Restricted Upgrade Support added for several releases of Oracle Database (Mike Dietrich)

• ORAdiff is live – compare two Oracle Database and Patch releases (Mike Dietrich)

• Introducing OCIFS (Alexandre Chartre)

• Performance Hub – the database tuning gem (Ulrike Schwinn)

• SQL Transpiler in 23c – automatic PL/SQL conversion into SQL (Ulrike Schwinn)

• A Java Example for Oracle Application Continuity with Autonomous Database (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• How to Use Flashback Time Travel in Autonomous Database (Can Tuzla)

• Diagramming JSON in SQL Developer Web Data Modeler (Jeff Smith)

• Disabling the Landing page in ORDS 23.2 and higher (Jeff Smith)

• Debunking the Myth: Oracle in the Cloud — Cost and Performance Comparison (Vijay Balebail)

• SAP NetWeaver® Application Server ABAP/Java with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M (Oracle Paper)

• ORAWORLD (e-Magazine for Oracle Users published by the EOUC)

• Oracle Technology GitHub repository (assets created by Oracle product specialist team)

• Database 23c  (oracle.com)

• 23c category (blogs.oracle.com/coretec)

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
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2