Database & Cloud Database News

• Announcing Oracle Database 23ai: Bring AI to your data (video announcement)
• Autonomous Database on Oracle Free Tier (web page)
• Always Free Autonomous Database 23ai (documentation)
• Download Autonomous Database Free Container Image
• Installing Oracle Database 23ai Free
• Oracle Database 23ai Brings the Power of AI to Enterprise Data and Applications (press release)
• New OCI Generative AI Professional Certification free until July 31 for customers and partners (announcement)
• Now automatically refresh Refreshable Clones on Autonomous Database (blog post)
• Cloud Links for Read Only Data Access on Autonomous Database (documentation)
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (all news)
• Announcing Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance 23.1 Software Release – Part 1 (blog post)
• Exadata System Software 24ai - Delivers mission critical AI at any scale (blog post)
• ExaDB-D on Oracle Database@Azure support for automatic backups to Autonomous Recovery Service in OCI (documentation)
• Backup and Restore from a Standby Database with Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service on Oracle Base Database Service (tutorial)
• Manage Serial Console Access to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure Systems (documentation)
• OCI Database Management now supports monitoring Exadata Cloud@Customer databases (blog post)
• Autonomous Health Framework Version 24.4 Released (blog post)
• SQL Developer Extension for VS Code v24.1 is now available (blog post)
• Oracle Linux 9.4 is released (download)

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• June 6: Customer Webcast: Autonomous in Action: Deutsche Bank is moving 1000s of databases into Oracle Exadata Cloud and Autonomous Database
• June 12: All Oracle DBA Master classes: Database 23ai Deep-Dive: JSON/Relational Duality 
• September 9-12: Oracle CloudWorld 2024 (Las Vegas)
• November 19-22: DOAG User Conference 2024 (Nuremberg)
• November 20-21: AI Navigator 2024 (Nuremberg)

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold

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

• Database Release 23.4.0.23.09, 21.14.0.0.240416, 19.23.0.0.240416, 12.2.0.1.220118, 12.1.0.2.220719: Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary (Doc ID 161818.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.22: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata System Software Updates - February 2024

• Exadata Storage server 24.1.0.0.0, 23.1.14.0.0, 22.1.23.0.0, 21.2.24.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.22: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• Datapump Bundle Patch 19.23: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

• AutoUpgrade 24.4.240426: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.42: Patch 6880880

• AHF 24.4: 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 23.1: oracle.com/sqlcl

• ORDS 24.1.1: oracle.com/ords

• APEX 23.2.6: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 2.2.0: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.4: 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 21.13, 19.22: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• Oracle Zero Downtime Migration – Physical Online Migration to ExaDB-D on Oracle Database@Azure (Technical Brief)
• Database Development Champions - Are Cloud Databases fast enough for Hardcore OLTP (YouTube)
• Migrate Data from On-prem Oracle 11g Database to OCI with Minimal downtime using OCI Database Migration (DMS) (Jorge Martinez, Sanoj Behera)
• Data Pump and Faster Export of SecureFile LOBs (Daniel Overby Hansen)
• Why and How to Backup your Oracle Database to OCI Object Storage Immutable Bucket (Sinan Petrus Toma)
• Database Performance Tuning - 5 Steps to Resolve Issues (Gareth Chapman)

Selected Oracle Database 23ai posts and videos (*)

• Announcing Oracle Database 23ai General Availability (Dominic Giles)
• Oracle Database 23ai is available in the cloud and as Free (Mike Dietrich)
• Try Oracle Database 23ai for Free (George Lumpkin)
• Oracle Database 23ai: Where to find information (Dominic Giles, Killian Lynch)
• Oracle Announces General Availability of AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai (Doug Hood, Ranjan Priyadarshi)
• Oracle Database 23ai: AI Made Simple for Enterprise (Youtube)
• Get Started with Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search (Adrian Png)
• High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery with Oracle Database 23ai (Markus Michalewicz)
• Exploring the Maximum Availability Architecture Gold MAA Tier with Oracle Database 23ai (Glen Hawkins)
• Oracle Globally Distributed Database supports RAFT Replication in Oracle Database 23ai (Pankaj Chandiramani)
• ETags with Oracle Database tables (Ulrike Schwinn)
• Getting started with True Cache in Oracle Database 23ai FREE (Ulrike Schwinn)
• Powering on with SQL*Plus for Oracle Database 23ai (Christopher Jones)
• AI and Converged Data: Oracle's Strategy for Data Management (YouTube)

(*) more links on Oracle Database 23ai GitHub

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

• 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 Cloud@Customer Gen2
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes – Database