Our Oracle Database Monthly News issue for August is online! The various topics can be found in the following categories
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
The PDF slide version can be found here.
Database & Cloud Database News
- AI
- Introducing Oracle AI World—the next evolution of our flagship live event: posting
- Oracle Deploys OpenAI GPT-5 Across Database and Cloud Applications Portfolio: press release
- Oracle reimagines the distributed database for an AI-native world: video
- Multicloud
- Oracle Database@AWS Achieves Gold MAA Certification for Maximum Availability Architecture: announcement
- GoldenGate now supports Oracle Database@AWS – Autonomous Database: documentation
- Oracle to Offer Google’s Gemini Models to Customers, Accelerating Enterprises’ Agentic AI Journeys: press release
- Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) August news such as
- Upgrade to Oracle Database 23ai with Scheduled Upgrade
- View or Copy Connection Code Samples
- URL Substitution Variables in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure URIs
- External Table Cache
- Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated (ADB-D) August news such as
- Oracle Key Vault (OKV) endpoint group association with Autonomous Container Database (ACD)
- Query Apache Iceberg Tables
- DBMS_EXT_TABLE_CACHE Package Support
- Support for CS_SESSION Package
- Exadata & Exascale
- Availability of Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure: press release
- Cross-Service Interoperability Between ExaDB-D and ExaDB-XS: Data Guard, Backup, and Restore: documentation
- Backup Destination Behavior When Enabling Automatic Backups and Standalone Backups Using the OCI Console: documentation
- More
- Announcing Race to Certification 2025: blog post
- SELinux increases security on Exadata: blog post
- New Features in Enterprise Manager 24ai Release 1 Update 4: documentation
- Oracle Data Safe News in August: documentation
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- September 9: Developing Smarter FinTech Apps with Oracle: AI-Powered Insights, Fraud Detection, and Natural Conversations (Developer Coaching Webinars)
- September 10: Five steps to implement image semantic search in Oracle APEX (Developer Coaching Webinars)
- September 11: From 0 to hero – scaling Sim Racing fan engagement with Oracle Red Bull Racing and Cloud Native Strategies (Developer Coaching Webinars)
- September 17: Build Smarter Apps with Oracle Database 23ai on Azure (Developer Coaching Webinars)
- September 24: Securing AI Workflows in Healthcare with Oracle Database 23ai (Developer Coaching Webinars)
- September 25: From Cloud-Native to Agentic: Engineering Next-Gen AI Apps with Oracle (Developer Coaching Webinars)
- September 23: Exadata meets the Experts
- October 13-16: Oracle AI World – Las Vegas
- November 18-21: DOAG 2025 Conference + Exhibition – Nuremberg
- November 18-19: DOAG Low-Code Creator – Nuremberg
- November 19-20: KI Navigator – Nuremberg
- December 8-12: IT Tage – Frankfurt am Main
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
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Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap, Doc ID 3068039.1
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Database Release 23.9.0.25.07, 21.19.0.0.250715, 19.28.0.0.250715: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)
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Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.4, 13.5.0.27: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage Server 25.2.1.0.0, 25.1.8.0.0, 24.1.15.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1), Announcing Exadata System Software 25ai Release 25.2
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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.28: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
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Data Pump Bundle Patch
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AutoUpgrade 25.4.20250730: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.47: Patch 6880880
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Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 25.7.0: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)
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DBSAT 4.0.0: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool(DBSAT)(Doc ID 2138254.1)
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SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev
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Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.2.2: download
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SQLcl 25.2.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 25.2.2: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 24.2.8: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 3.3.0: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.9: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
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Instant Client Linux 23.9, 21.19, 19.28: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 23.9, 21.19, 19.28: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
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AI
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Using Claude to ‘fix’ my table comments via our MCP Server (Jeff Smith)
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More Examples on Hybrid Vector Search (Ulrike Schwinn)
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Building a new app schema database using Windsurf and GPT-5 (Jeff Smith)
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- Multicloud
- Oracle Database@AWS Achieves Gold MAA Certification for Maximum Availability Architecture (Anuja Malik,Karthik Gopalakrishnan)
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Developers
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Reading List – August 2025 (Gerald Venzl)
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Using Claude Desktop to Create Dashboards for APEX (Scott Spendolini)
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Do it yourself: updated Developer Playground for Oracle 23ai, APEX 24.2 & ORDS (Sonja Meyer)
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Oracle Text Search in Autonomous Database (Ulrike Schwinn)
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Exadata & Exascale
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SELinux increases security on Exadata (Natarajan Shankar)
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Oracle reimagines the distributed database for an AI-native world (Siliconangle)
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Exadata Versatility: NFS on Exascale ACFS for Scalable, Shared File Access (Allan Graves, Natarajan Shankar)
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Backup & Recovery
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Prevent Database Downtime: Why Every Business Needs a Modern Backup and Recovery Strategy (Allen Best)
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Application and AI Scalability with Oracle Active Data Guard (Ludovico Caldera)
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Automating Refreshable Clones in Autonomous Database: Step-by-Step Guide with Minute-Level Refresh Intervals (Paloma Aguiar)
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Patching & Upgrade
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Online COMPATIBLE raise starting with 23.9 (Rodrigo Jorge)
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How To Downgrade a PDB from Oracle Database 23ai (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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More
- The Business Value of Oracle Autonomous Database (IDC)
- Database Unchained: Oracle offers Oracle Database with Ultimate Geographic and Deployment Flexibility (guest: Carl Olofson)
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Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)
General Information
- 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
- 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 for Oracle Data Safe
- New Features in Enterprise Manager by Release Update
- New Features in 19c Release Updates
- New Features in 23ai Release Updates
- What’s New for Oracle AI Vector Search