Oracle Database Monthly News – February 2024 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database: announcement

• Pre-Authenticated Request URLs for Read Only Data Access in ADB-S: documentation

• Replicate Backups to a Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Peer in ADB-S: documentation

• Select AI with OCI Generative AI in ADB-S: documentation

• OCI Vault integration for cross-region Data Guard: documentation

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13.5.0.19 now in OCI Marketplace: Oracle cloud marketplace

• License Change for Automatic SQL Plan Management: blog posting

• DBMS_SPM function has been backported to 19c from 23c: blog posting

• OCI Control Center supports capacity management: announcement

• New release for Data Integration: announcement

• MySQL HeatWave: Bring your own Certificates: announcement

• Availability of OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery in OC1 regions worldwide: blog posting

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• All Oracle DBA Master classes (live and on-demand)
• March 6: Oracle’s Tech Lounge series – Divide & Conquer: Boost Application Performance with Partitioning
• March 14: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action
• March 19: DB 23c In-Depth: The Graph Database (DBA Masterclass) 
• March 27: Oracle Database Appliance Meet the Experts
• May 16: Move to Oracle Database 23c – Everything you need to know about Oracle Multitenant (Virtual Classroom Series Upgrade to Oracle DB 23c)
• April 22-24: APEXConnect 2024
• Save the date for CloudWorld Tour 2024: London (14.3), Milan (21.3), Sao Paulo (4.4), Singapore (16.4), Tokyo (18.4), Mexico City (25.4)

Release & Patch Updates

       (*) Changes in bold

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

• Database Release 23.3.0.23.09, 21.13.0.0.240116, 19.22.0.0.240116, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.19: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata System Software Updates – February 2024

• Exadata Storage server 23.1.11.0.0, 22.1.20.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.21: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• Datapump Bundle Patch 19.22.0.0.0 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 24.1: 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 23.1.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 23.4: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 23.4: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 23.2.4: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 2.1.0: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.3: 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 19.22 and 21.13: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• GraphQL, SQL/PGQ or SPARQL ? (Karin Patenge, Marcel Boermann-Pfeifer)

• Oracle Object Storage Access for all Oracle Databases with DBMS_CLOUD (Ulrike Schwinn)

• 1 billion row challenge in SQL and Oracle Database (Gerald Venzl)

• Create Your First Exadata and Oracle Database on Oracle Database@Azure (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• Oracle Database Unified Audit: Best Practice Guidelines

• Secure Access Management with Database Management Service Named Credentials (Derik Harlow)

• Why is my VS Code Extension (SQL Developer) not working? (Jeff Smith)

• Reduce Database patching effort and elevate security posture with Enterprise Manager (Romit Acharya)

Interesting LiveLabs

• Chat with Your Data in Autonomous Database Using Generative AI
• Oracle Globally Distributed Database
• Getting started with OCI Data Science

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