Oracle Database Monthly News – November 2023 – Quick Links

Our Quick Links issue for November 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

• Autonomous Data Guard for Standalone Autonomous Container Database: documentation

• Use Cloud Links for Read Only Data Access on Autonomous Database: documentation

• Get Early Access to Upcoming Patches in Your Autonomous Database: blog post

• Oracle Real Application Testing available on Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure: documentation

• New features in OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery: blog post

• Enhancement to Pluggable Database (PDB) Management on ExaDB-C@C, ExaDB-D, and BaseDB: documentation

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Utilized by Microsoft for Bing Conversational Search: press release

• European Commission Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: press release

• Oracle Named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure: press release

• Extended Support for Oracle Java SE 11 has been extended from September 30, 2026 to January 31, 2032: support policy

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Oracle Developer Tech Days
• Oracle Database Appliance Meet the Experts
• Oracle’s Tech Lounge series 
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
• April 22-24: APEXConnect 2024 (CfP until November 17)
• Save the date for CloudWorld Tour 2024: Dubai, Mumbai,London, Milan, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, Mexivo City

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, 19.21.0.0.231017, 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 23.1.8.0.0, 22.1.17.0.0, 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 version 23.4.230921 AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• AHF 23.10.0: 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: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 23.3: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 23.3: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 23.2: oracle.com/apex

• Python Driver 1.4.2: 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

• OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery Introduces DR Drills (Suraj Ramesh)

• Easy Database Search with APEX in 23c (Ulrike Schwinn, Florian Grasshoff)

• How Draining and Application Continuity Work for Maintenance with Oracle RAC (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• Oracle Database 19c is certified on OL9 and RHEL9 (Mike Dietrich)

• Monitor progress of Oracle Data Pump impdp (Mike Dietrich)

• Why Are You Not Using Bigfile Tablespaces? (Daniel Overby Hansen)

• 23c Deep Dive – In-Memory Vector Join Enhancements (Andy Rivenes)

• Reclaiming Unused Space in Oracle Database 23c with ‘tablespace_shrink’ (Killian Lynch)

• 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