Our Quick Links issue for June 2023 is available. As usual the links are subdivided in the following different categories:
Database & Cloud Database News
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Introducing Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M: blog
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Increased Storage Limit (to 384 TB) available to ADB-S: documentation
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DBMS_CLOUD_ADMIN.ENABLE_EXTERNAL_AUTHENTICATION to enable Kerberos, Microsoft Azure AD, or Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication as an external authentication scheme | ADB-D: documentation
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Use Directories to Load Data with
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Announcing European Data Privacy and Sovereignty Requirements with New EU Sovereign Cloud: announcement
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VM Cluster and Database health/performance metrics in OCI Console for Exadata Cloud@Customer: documentation
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ADB-S remaned to Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless: documentation
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Announcing the General Availability of the SQL:2023 Standard: blog
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Free Certification for OCI until August 31, 2023: website
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New product page for 23c Database(*): website
(*) available as Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- July 5: Enable Ultimate Performance with Automatic Database Tuning (Oracle DBA Masterclass)
- 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
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Update Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1
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Database Release 21.10.0.0.230418, 19.19.0.0.230620, 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 13.5.0.15: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 23.1.3.0.0, 22.1.1.12.0.0, 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) 19.19: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
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MiniCluster 1.6.0: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)
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AutoUpgrade version 23.1 Build 20230224 AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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AHF 23.5: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)
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DBSAT 2.2.2: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (Doc ID 2138254.1)
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SQL Developer 23.1: oracle.com/sqldev
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SQLcl 23.1: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 23.1.4: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 23.1.2: oracle.com/apex
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Node.js Driver 6.0.2: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
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Instant Client Linux 19.19 and 21.10: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 19.19 and 21.10: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
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Bringing Multimedia back into 19c! (Connor McDonald)
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Lock-free reservation in 23c: scale your apps (Stephane Duprat)
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New full-text search in 23c: Ubiquitous Database Search (Ulrike Schwinn)
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Announcing OCI Toolkit for VS Code: Supercharge your cloud development (Shreya Krishnan)
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A Java Example for Oracle Application Continuity with Oracle RAC (Sinan Petrus Toma)
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Oracle Database – fit for Kubernetes (Marcel Boermann-Pfeifer)
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How to migrate to OracleDB for Azure using ZDM Physical Online Migration (Sinan Petrus Toma)
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DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport in Oracle Database 23c (Mike Dietrich)
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Why Exadata is the Best Platform for Database In-Memory (White Paper)
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Why haven’t you moved to AL32UTF8 yet? (Rich Soule)
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Database 23c on oracle.com
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23c category on 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

