Oracle Database Monthly News – September 2024 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Keynotes Oracle CloudWorld 2024: YouTube
• Announcing Oracle Zero Downtime Migration 21.5: announcement
• Autonomous Recovery Service Checklist: blog post
• Exadata Database Service VM Clusters on a Single VM: documentation
• OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery expands its built-in capabilities for database and storage: blog post
• Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB-S): all ADB-S September News
  e.g.
  • Creating Implicit Partitioning for External Tables – documentation
  • Use Select AI Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) – documentation
  • Undelete Database – documentation
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D): all ADB-D September News
  e.g.
  • Availability of new Dynamic Performance Views on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure – documentation 
• Oracle Database 23ai Free available for Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 on ARM (aarch64): download page
• Database Developer Survey 2024: survey
• Announcing Oracle Machine Learning Services Data Bias Detector: blog post
• VirtualBox 7.1.0 available now: changelog

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• October 2: Oracle GoldenGate Roadmap and Strategy (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• October 16: Protecting the Crown Jewels – the State of Database Security (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• October 23: Oracle’s Super Database Platform: Synergy of DB 23ai, Exadata, and new Management Packs (Oracle DBA Masterclass)
• October 30: Enabling Generative AI with Oracle Database (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• November 19-22: DOAG User Conference 2024 (Nuremberg)
• November 20-21: AI Navigator 2024 (Nuremberg)
• 2024: Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025 (world-wide)

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold

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

• Database Release 23.5.0.24.07, 21.15.0.0.240416, 19.24.0.0.240917, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.23: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 24.1.4.0.0, 23.1.18.0.0, 22.1.27.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.24: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• Datapump Bundle Patch 19.24: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

• AutoUpgrade 24.6.240905: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880

• AHF 24.8: 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 24.2: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 24.2.3: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 24.1.4: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 2.4.1: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.6: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 23.4, 21.14, 19.23: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 23.5, 21.15, 19.24: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• How I scraped the CloudWorld catalog (Connor McDonald)
• Using the Automatic SQL Tuning Set in Oracle Database 19c (Nigel Bayliss)
• Migrate Oracle Databases to ExaDB-D on Oracle Database@Google Cloud with Zero Downtime Migration (YouTube)
• Our Real World Database Upgrade and Migration Workshop Is Back on the Road (Daniel Overby Hansen)
• Oracle ZDM Migration to Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure (Sinan Petrus Toma, Ricardo Gonzalez, Thomas Van Buggenhout)
• Bigfile Tablespace Shrink (Ulrike Schwinn)
• How to Create a Database Link in Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure (Sinan Petrus Toma)
• Deploy WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal with HeatWave Always Free DB System in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Anand Prabhu)
• HeatWave Innovation Rolls on with New Generative AI and Multicloud Capabilities (Press Release)
• How to Trace Oracle Data Pump (Daniel Overby Hansen)
• Starting Oracle Database 23ai Free at boot time (Martin Bach)
• Cleanup datapatch patching files in your database (Mike Dietrich) 
• Materialized Views on JSON Collection Tables (YouTube)
• Lock-Free Reservation (YouTube)
• Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)

General 

• Oracle Technology Products (Oracle Lifetime Support Policy)
• Client / Server Interoperability Support Matrix for Different Oracle Versions (Doc ID 207303.1)
• OCI Status for all Services
• Cloud Services Quick Reference

What’s New

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes – Database
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure