Oracle Database Monthly News – December 2023 – Quick Links

The last quick links issue in 2023 is available – as always with links under the following different categories:

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

The whole Oracle database monthly news team wishes a happy new year! Hopefully you will consult our quick links next year again.


Marcus Schroeder, Frank Schneede, Detlef E. Schroeder, Wolfgang Team, Sinan Petrus Toma and Ulrike Schwinn (from left to right)

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle Database@Azure now generally available in the US East region (Ashburn): blog post

• VM Cluster on a Single VM on Exadata Cloud@Customer: documentation

• Scaling of Autonomen Exadata VM Clusters on Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: documentation

• Enhanced PDB automation on Exadata and Base Database Services: blog post

• Backup and Restore from a Standby Database in a Data Guard Association in BaseDB: documentation 

• Backup Enhancements on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Infrastructure and Exadata Cloud@Customer: blog post

• Cross-tenancy cloning is now available in ADB-S (full/metadata clones, clones from auto and long-term backups, clones from a point in time, refreshable clones): documentation

• Upgrade the operating system to Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and the Oracle Grid Infrastructure to 19c in your VM DB system: documentation

• Creating Database Links from Autonomous Database to Databases with Private Endpoints: blog post

• Cross Tenancy Cloning for Autonomous Database Serverless: documentation

• Introducing EU Sovereign Operations for Exadata Database Cloud@Customer: blog post

• Oracle named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services: oracle.com

• Oracle APEX Wins InfoWorld Technology of the Year 2023 Award for Software Development Platform!: blog post

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
• January-March: Oracle Database Appliance Meet the Experts (23.1, 27.2, 27.3)
• January 11: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action 
• January 24: Oracle’s Tech Lounge series – Next-Level Data Security with Database Vault
• April 22-24: APEXConnect 2024
• Save the date for CloudWorld Tour 2024: Dubai (23.1), Mumbai (14.2), London (14.3), Milan (21.3), Sao Paulo (4.4), Singapore (16.4), Tokyo (18.April), Mexico City (25.2)

Release & Patch Updates

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

• Database Release 23.3.0.23.09, 21.12.0.0.231017, 19.21.0.0.231121, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.17: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 23.1.9.0.0, 22.1.18.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.20.0.1: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• Datapump Bundle Patch 19.21.0.0.0 Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

• AutoUpgrade 23.4.230921 AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• AHF 23.11: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

• DBSAT 3.0.0: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (Doc ID 2138254.1)

• SQL Developer 23.1.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 23.3: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 23.4: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 23.2.1: oracle.com/apex

• Python Driver 2.0.0: python-oracledb Release Notes

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

• Instant Client Linux 19.21 and 21.12: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 19.21 and 21.12: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• Installing MLE Modules in the Oracle Database (Philipp Salvisberg)

• Querying Graphs with SQL and PGQL: What is the difference? (Melliyal Annamalai)

• SQL statement tracking in 23c with SQL History (Ulrike Schwinn)

• Oracle Database 23c Technical Architecture

• OCI Database with PostgreSQL (Witold Swierzy)

• Introducing Vector Store and Generative AI in MySQL HeatWave (Nipun Agarwal)

• Deliver applications with machine learning-powered recommendations (Bertrand Matthelie)

• Configuring Oracle Database In-memory On A Standby Database (Alaa Fahmy)

• Pluggable Database (PDB) Relocate using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console (YouTube) 

• Premier Support for Oracle Database 21c extended (Mike Dietrich)

• How Application Continuity Works for Unplanned Interruption in Oracle RAC Environments (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• Refreshable PDB Clones in Data Guard Environments On-premises and on Oracle Cloud (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• Oracle APEX 23.2 (playlist)

• The Year that Was – Exadata in 2023 (Alex Blyth)

• 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 Serverless
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2
• What’s New in Oracle APEX 23.2