Our Oracle Database Monthly News issue for September is online! The various topics can be found in the following categories
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
The PDF slide version can be found here.
Database & Cloud Database News
- AI
- Multicloud
- Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) September news such as
- Select AI Conversations, Select AI Feedback, Select AI Summarize
- Directory File Support for Data Pipelines and AI
- Access Table Hyperlinks with Explicit ACLs
- Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated (ADB-D) September news such as
- Retain the terminated database backups and lock the ACD backup retention period
- Undelete a terminated Autonomous Database
- Directory File Support for Data Pipelines and AI
- Exadata & Exascale
- Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) now supports Oracle Database 19c and Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c: documentation
- New Regions and Realms for ExaDB-XS: documentation
- More
- Oracle Base Database Service for Developers: documentation
- Announcing New Cost-Optimized Oracle Engineered Systems Offerings: Exadata X11M eXTended Storage Server and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance RA23-Z: blog post
- Announcing Race to Certification 2025: blog post
- New Standard x86 shape on Oracle Base Database Service: documentation
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
- October 1, 8, 15: Developer Coaching Webinars
- October 29: Exadata meets the Experts
- October 13-16: Oracle AI World – Las Vegas
- October 22: Oracle AI World 2025 Follow Up mit Maria Colgan – Frankfurt
- November 18-21: DOAG 2025 Conference + Exhibition – Nuremberg. The agenda is online.
- November 18-19: DOAG Low-Code Creator – Nuremberg
- November 19-20: KI Navigator – Nuremberg
- December 8-11: IT Tage – Frankfurt am Main
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
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Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap, Doc ID 3068039.1
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Database Release 23.9.0.25.07, 21.19.0.0.250715, 19.28.0.0.250715: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)
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Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.5, 13.5.0.27: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
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Exadata Storage Server 25.2.2.0.0, 25.1.9.0.0, 24.1.16.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1), Announcing Exadata System Software 25ai Release 25.2
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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.28: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
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Data Pump Bundle Patch
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AutoUpgrade 25.4.20250730: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)
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OPatch 12.2.0.1.47: Patch 6880880
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Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 25.8.0: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)
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DBSAT 4.0.0: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool(DBSAT)(Doc ID 2138254.1)
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SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev
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Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.2.2: download
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SQLcl 25.2.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
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ORDS 25.2.3: oracle.com/ords
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APEX 24.2.9: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
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Python Driver 3.3.0: python-oracledb Release Notes
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Node.js Driver 6.9: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
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Instant Client Linux 23.9, 21.19, 19.28: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
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Instant Client Windows 23.9, 21.19, 19.28: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
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AI
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Configuring a Private Endpoint LLM for Oracle Autonomous Database Select AI (Mark Hornick)
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Exadata AI Smart Scan Deep Dive (Alex Blyth)
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- Multicloud
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Developers
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Building an Interactive Analytic Application in Autonomous Database Using APEX (William Endress)
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A little story of Oracle APEX (Low Code) for the win (Tim Hall)
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Oracle 23.9 supports GROUP BY ALL (Dani Schnider)
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SQL Diagnostic Report Now Available in Oracle Database 19c (Nigel Bayliss)
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Visualize Graphs in SQL Developer for VS Code (Ramu Murakami Gutierrez)
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Oracle Machine Learning for R now Supports Oracle R Distribution 4.4.1 (Sherry LaMonica)
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Upgrade and Migration
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How To Upgrade 100 PDBs And Move Them To Another Server (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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AutoUpgrade New Features: A Very Easy Way To Generate A Config File (Daniel Overby Hansen)
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Exadata & Exascale
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Exadata AI Smart Scan Deep Dive (Alex Blyth)
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Protecting Database Performance using DBRM + Dynamic Scaling (Christian Craft)
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More
- Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)
General Information
- Oracle Multicloud Capabilities App
- 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
- Oracle Autonomous Database Third-Party Applications—Validation and Compatibility
What’s New Links
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
- 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 Exascale Infrastructure
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
- What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
- What’s New for Oracle Data Safe
- New Features in Enterprise Manager by Release Update
- New Features in 19c Release Updates
- New Features in 23ai Release Updates
- What’s New for Oracle AI Vector Search