We just published our last issue for this year – Oracle Database Monthly News for December 2025 !
As usual the various topics can be found in the following categories:
- Database & Cloud Database News
- Upcoming Events
- Release & Patch Updates
- Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- General Information and What’s New Links
Multicloud News:
Oracle Database@AWS:
- Cross-Region Restore for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
Oracle Database@Azure
- Oracle GoldenGate availability in additional regions: Italy North (Milan), Central US (Iowa), Australia East (New South Wales)
- Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure availability in additional regions: West US (California), Germany North (Berlin)
- Oracle Autonomous AI Database availability in additional regions: Canada East, Switzerland North, and Central India (Pune)
- Oracle Database@Azure now also available in the Brazil Southeast region
Oracle Database@Google
- Oracle Autonomous AI Database availability in the Sydney (australia-southeast), Osasco, SaoPaulo, Brazil (southamerica-east1), and Mumbai (asia-south1) regions
- Oracle Base Database Service availability in the Council Bluffs, Iowa (us-central1) region
- Restore from automatic backup and point-in-time restore available in the Google Cloud Console
- Oracle Database@Azure now also available in the Brazil Southeast region
Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) December news: e.g.
- Manage workload resources using Database Resource Manager
- Provider Scoped Table Hyperlink
- Autonomous AI Database API for DynamoDB
Oracle Autonomous AI Database Dedicated (ADB-D) December news: e.g.
- AWR Report on Standby Databases
- Cross region restore of an Autonomous AI Database S3 backups
- Use
DBMS_CLOUD_NOTIFICATIONpackage to send OCI Notifications
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Cloud@Customer news: e.g.
- Support for Concurrent Data Guard Operations in Multiple Standby Environments
General
- Oracle AI Database 26ai coming soon for Linux x86-64 on-premises platforms: posting
Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours events
- DOAG Events (German)
- Ora2Know Events (German)
- January 7: Using AI in Your .NET Oracle AI Database Apps (Developer Coaching)
- January 20: Exadata meets the Experts
- May 18./19.: DOAG Datenbank / May 18.-20. APEX Connect (Heide Park Soltau)
- May 5: DB Masters Event 2026 (Wien)
- 2026: Oracle AI World Tour
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2025
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases:
(PNEWS1360) Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (742060.1)
(PNEWS1470) Oracle AI Database Cloud-First, Developer-First Strategy for the 26ai Release
(3068039.1)
(KB112119) Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (161818.1) - Database Release 23.26.0.0.0, 21.20.0.0.251021, 19.29.0.0.251021: (KB106822) Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (888.1)
- Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.6, 13.5.0.28: (PNEWS1689) Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (822485.1)
- Exadata Storage Server 25.2.5.0.0, 25.1.12.0.0, 24.1.19.0.0: (KB153930) Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (888828.1)
Exadata System Software Updates – December 2025 - Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.29: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
- Data Pump Bundle Patch:
- 19.29,19.29 (Win only): (KB107134) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (2819284.1)
- 23.26: (KB160561) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai / 26ai (3056856.1)
- AutoUpgrade 25.6.20251016: (KB123450) AutoUpgrade Tool (2485457.1)
- OPatch 12.2.0.1.48: Patch 6880880
- Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 25.10.0: (KB858617) Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including Trace File Analyzer and Orachk/Exachk (2550798.1)
- DBSAT 4.0.0: (KB101686) Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (2138254.1)
- SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev
- Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.3.2: download
- SQLcl25.3.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
Oracle SQLcl Support Timeline - ORDS 25.3.1: oracle.com/ords
Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline - APEX 24.2.12: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
- Python Driver 3.4.1: python-oracledb Release Notes
- Node.js Driver 6.10: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
- Instant Client Linux 23.26, 21.20, 19.29:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html - Instant Client Windows 23.26, 21.19, 19.29:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Oracle Base Database Service Developer Edition – A Cost-Effective Way to Build in the Cloud (Martin Berger)
- Is Memory a Cloud Migration Showstopper? Lessons from a Real Oracle Autonomous Database Case (Paolo Kreth)
- Migrating to Exascale and Upgrading to Oracle AI Database 26ai using AutoUpgrade (Alex Zaballa)
- How to import dump files into OCI Autonomous Database using Database Actions (Carlos Álvarez)
- Oracle AI Database 26ai coming soon for Linux x86-64 on-premises platforms (Jenny Tsai-Smith)
- Can I build an Agent & still use SQLcl’s MCP Server? Yes! (Jeff Smith)
- Finally … Oracle AI Database 26ai is going to be available on non-Oracle hardware (Mike Dietrich)
- How to Use NOLOGGING to Make Imports Faster (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- Upgrade to Oracle AI Database 26ai (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- The Best Approach For Backup Before Upgrade (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- How to convert object comments to schema annotations (Chris Saxon)
- Using SQLcl MCP Server with Claude Desktop: From Comments to Annotations (Ulrike Schwinn)
- Monitoring Oracle Exadata MOS Notes (Alex Blyth)
- Exadata in 2025: Innovations and Insights Across the Product Family (Alex Blyth)
General Information and “What’s New” Links
General Information
- Oracle Multicloud Capabilities App
- Oracle Database@AWS
- Oracle Database@Azure
- Oracle Database@Google Cloud
- 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
- Oracle AI Database 26ai Release Updates
- What’s New for Oracle AI Vector Search