Oracle Database Monthly News – February 2023 – Quick Links

Our Quick Links issue for February 2023 is available. As usual the links are subdivided into the following categories:

• General News 
• Upcoming Events
• Release & Patch Updates
• Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

Database & Cloud Database News

• Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service now available: announcement

• Autonomous VM Cluster Node Subsetting on Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer: blog post

• Snapshot standby databases on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure and Exadata Cloud@Customer: blog post

• Oracle Database 23c Beta Program: blog post

• ECPUs as a new compute model Oracle in Autonomous Database: documentation

• Announcing third-party Python packages for use for Graph Studio on Autonomous Database: blog post

• Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure Enhanced Infrastructure Maintenance Controls: documentation

• Red Hat and Oracle Expand Collaboration to Bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: press release

• Connecting Power BI and SQL Server Data Tools to Oracle Database: New and Improved: blog post

• Spatial Studio 22.3 Available Now: blog post

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• March 22: Real-World Testing (masterclass) 
• March 21-23: JavaLand (Bruehl)
• April, May: Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2023 (Singapore, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, London, Sao Paulo) 
• May 3-4: APEX connect (Berlin)  (early bird price until Mach 30)
• May 24-25: DOAG 2023 DATABASE WITH EXADAY (Duesseldorf) (early bird price until April 19)
• June 20-23: CloudLand 2023 (Bruehl) (early bird price until May 9)

Release & Patch Updates

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

• Sunsetting of 19c RURs and FAQ: Doc ID 2898381.1

• Introducing Monthly Recommended Patches (MRPs) and FAQ: Doc ID 2898740.1

• Database Release 21.9.0.0.230117, 19.18.0.0.230117, 19.17.0.0.230117,12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.12: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 22.1.8.0.0, 21.2.21: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.18: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

• MiniCluster 1.6.0: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)

• AutoUpgrade 22.5 Build 220221011  AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• AHF 23.1: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

• DBSAT 2.2.2: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (Doc ID 2138254.1)

• SQL Developer 22.2.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 22.4: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 22.4.3: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 22.2.3: oracle.com/apex

• Node.js Driver 5.5: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 19.18 and 21.9: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 19.18 and 21.9: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Create and Enable Oracle Data Guard Far Sync (Sinan Petrus Toma)

• Using transparent application continuity with current Java frameworks – this is how it works (Marcel Boerman Pfeifer)

• How to create a VM DB System via Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) (Sinan Petrus Pfeifer)

• ORDS & SQL Developer Web 22.4.2 – Self Service Schemas (Jeff Smith)

• Oracle Database Development with Docker (Witold Swierzy)

• Approaches to detect potential fraud (Mark Hornick)

• Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• Oracle Backup & Recovery Technologies – Year in Review (Tim Chien)

• Tirthankar Lahiri about Scalability and Converged Database (DOAG.tv)

• Oracle on Docker (Sean Scott)

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
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure – New Feature Announcements
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2