Our Quick Links issue for September 2023 is available. As usual you will find links subdivided in the following different categories including a special catagory this time for Oracle CloudWorld announcements:
- Oracle CloudWorld 2023 Announcements
- News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
Oracle CloudWorld 2023 Announcements
- Oracle and Microsoft expand partnership to deliver Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure: product page
- Oracle Database 23c is now Generally Available on OCI Oracle Base Database Service: blog post
- High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery with Oracle Database 23c: blog post
- Oracle Introduces Integrated Vector Database to Augment Generative AI and Dramatically Increase Developer Productivity: Press Release
- Achieve data residency, availability, and scale with Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database: blog post
- Use the Oracle Autonomous Database Free Container Image to run Autonomous Database in a container in your own environment: documentation, GitHub, blog post
- Introducing Select AI – Natural Language to SQL Generation on Autonomous Database: blog post, Autonomous Database speaks “human”: blog post
- Top 7 Oracle GoldenGate Announcements at CloudWorld 2023: blog post
- Oracle CloudWorld 2023: Key announcements and highlights: blog post
- Oracle’s vision for the future—Larry Ellison keynote | Oracle CloudWorld 2023 (youtube video)
- The future of data and app dev—Juan Loaiza keynote | Oracle CloudWorld 2023 (youtube video)
Database & Cloud Database News
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Backup and Restore from a Standby Database in a Data Guard Environment: documentation
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Use and Manage Elastic Resource Pools on Autonomous Database Serverless: documentation
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20 GB as minimum storage size for Autonomous Database Serverless: documentation
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Database Management Service: SQL Tuning Set Management and AWR Configuration: video
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Register an Amazon RDS for Oracle database as an Oracle Data Safe target database: documentation
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- Oracle Developer Tech Days
- August – November: Oracle’s Tech Lounge series
- October 18: Oracle Database 23c – Transactional Microservices
- October 27: MySQL HeatWave – OLTP (Part 1)
- October 27: MySQL HeatWave – Analytics/Machine Learning/Lakehouse (Part 2)
- November 21-24: DOAG 2023 Conference + Exhibition (Nuremberg)
- November 22-23: KI NAVIGATOR 2023 (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 23.3.0.23.09, 21.11.0.0.230718, 19.20.0.0.230919, 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 13.5.0.17: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage server 23.1.6.0.0, 22.1.15.0.0, 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) 19.20.0.1: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
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MiniCluster 1.6.1.3: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)
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AutoUpgrade version 23.2 Build 20230626 AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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DATAPUMP BUNDLE PATCH 19.20.0.0.0 Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)
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AHF 23.8: 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 23.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 23.2.3: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 23.1.5: oracle.com/apex
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Python Driver 1.4.1: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.1.0: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
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Instant Client Linux 19.20 and 21.11: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 19.20 and 21.11: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
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Oracle CloudWorld 2023: Key announcements and highlights (Niharika Kalra)
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Using JSON Relational Duality Views with Micronaut® Framework (Horan/Rocher)
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SQL Firewall now built into Oracle Database 23c (Vipin Samar)
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Unlimited data-driven collaboration with Data Sharing of Oracle Autonomous Database (Alexey Filanovskiy)
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Introducing Select AI – Natural Language to SQL Generation on Autonomous Database (Mark Hornick)
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Can Data Pump Export to ASM Storage? (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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How to Upgrade to Oracle Database 19c and Migrate to a PDB Using Refreshable Clone PDBs (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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How to create a TEMP File after PDB Creation in Data Guard Environments (Sinan Petrus Toma)
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Oracle APEX and Analytics with Oracle Database Geocoded Data (Mark Daynes)
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Oracle Technology GitHub repository (assets created by Oracle product specialist team)
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Database 23c (oracle.com)
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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

