Our March edition is available! 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
The PDF slide version can be found here.
Database & Cloud Database News
Multicloud News
- Oracle AI Database@AWS news, e.g.:
- Regions support in Sydney, Ireland, London, and Montreal
- Oracle AI Database@Azure news, e.g.:
- Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure support in Tokyo and West Europe regions
- Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud news, e.g.:
- Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure and Oracle Base Database Service support in Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil region
Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) March news, e.g.:
- Select AI for Property Graphs
- Monitor Autonomous AI Database Memory Utilization
- Clone
ADMINPrivileges in Autonomous AI Database - Single Sign-On Support for all Autonomous AI Database Tools
Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D) March news, e.g.:
- Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure
- DBMS_CLOUD_FUNCTION Package, with support for External Procedures
- Integrate generative AI capabilities into Python workflows
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer March news, e.g.:
- General Availability (GA) of Exascale VM Storage for Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
General
- Oracle AI World Tour, London—Mar 24, 2026: Press Release, Keynote (YouTube)
- Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory – Release 25.3: documentation
- Changes In Release 25.3.0.0.8 For Agent Factory: documentation
- Conditional filters for count, sum, and other aggregates in Oracle AI Database: blog post
Upcoming Events
- Ask Tom Office Hours
- Monthly Oracle APEX Events
- Developer Coaching Events
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Events
- DOAG Events
- April 21: Exadata meets the Experts
- April 22: ora2know: Upgrade Workshop (Düsseldorf)
- April 23: Patch Smarter, Not Harder – Windows Special Edition (Virtual Classroom Seminar)
- April 29: Advanced Edition: Upgrade, Migration and Patching to Oracle AI Database 26ai and 19c (London)
- May 5: DB Masters Event 2026 (Vienna)
- May 11/May 12: Extreme Edition: Upgrade, Migration and Patching to Oracle AI Database 26ai (May 11 in Utrecht/May 12 in Brussels)
- May 18/19: DOAG Database (Heide Park Soltau)
- May 18-20: APEX Connect (Heide Park Soltau)
- 2026: Oracle AI World Tour
Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – January 2026
- 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 23.26.1.0.0, 21.21.0.0.260120, 19.30.0.0.260317: (KB106822) Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (888.1)
- Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.7, 13.5.0.29: (PNEWS1689) Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (822485.1)
- Exadata Storage Server 25.2.8.0.0, 25.1.15.0.0: (KB153930) Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (888828.1)
- Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.30: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation
- Data Pump Bundle Patch:
- 19.30,19.29 (Win only): (KB107134) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (2819284.1)
- 23.26.1: (KB160561) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai / 26ai (3056856.1)
- AutoUpgrade 26.2 (KB123450) AutoUpgrade Tool (2485457.1)
- OPatch 12.2.0.1.49: Patch 6880880
- Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 26.2.0: (KB858617) Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including Trace File Analyzer and Orachk/Exachk (2550798.1)
- DBSAT 4.2: (KB101686) Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (2138254.1)
- SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev
- Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.4.1: download
- SQLcl 25.4.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
- ORDS 25.4.2: oracle.com/ords
- APEX 24.2.15: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
- Python Driver 3.4.2: python-oracledb Release Notes
- Node.js Driver 6.10: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
- Instant Client Linux 23.26.1, 21.21, 19.30:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html - Instant Client Windows 23.26.1, 21.20, 19.30:
oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications
- Oracle Unveils AI Database Agentic Innovations for Business Data (press release)
- Oracle AI Database update aims to ease developing agents (TechTarget)
- Oracle AI Database Delivers Mission-Critical Agentic AI Built for Business Data (Hasan Rizvi)
- Introducing Oracle Deep Data Security: Identity-Aware Data Access Control for Agentic AI in Oracle AI Database 26ai (Roger Wigenstam)
- Oracle Introduces Trusted Answer Search to Deliver Fast, Accurate and Secure Answers from Natural Language—Without the Chatbot Guesswork (Sanjay Goil)
- Apache Iceberg on OCI Object Storage with GoldenGate for DAA 26ai (Carmelo Millan Rosales, Deniz Sendil)
- Announcing Oracle Select AI Pre-Built AI Agents (Mark Hornick)
- Data Science Agent: Native Conversational Analytics and Machine Learning in Autonomous AI Database (Mark Hornick)
- Introducing the NEW Oracle Private AI Services Container (Doug Hood)
- How to use the Oracle Private Services Container with HTTP in PL/SQL (Markus Kissling)
- MCP + AI: Helping You Modernize Your Oracle Forms Apps to Oracle APEX (Monica Godoy)
- Get Started with Oracle Autonomous AI Database MCP Server (LiveLab)
- 26ai Duality Views: Build Updatable JSON Documents (LiveLab)
- Oracle 23ai: JSON Schema Support (Anas Darkal)
- DNS resolution with Network Anchors in the Oracle Database at Azure (Catalin Andrei, Nishanth Sodum)
- Upgrade Oracle Database 19c PDB to 26ai with Data Guard and Restoring Data Files (Deferred Recovery) (Daniel Overby Hansen)
- Two Decades of Penguins: Oracle Linux turns 20 (Greg Marsden)
- Exadata System Software Updates – March 2026 (Alex Blyth)
- Database Security: A Technical Primer (Seventh Edition)
- Oracle APEX Newsletter March 2026
- Reading List – March 2026 #3 (Gerald Venzl)
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
- What’s new in Oracle AI Database@AWS
- What’s new in Oracle AI Database@Azure
- What’s new in Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud
- 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 in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
- 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
- Select AI and Select AI Agent Compatibility Matrix