Database
360 Release Notes
Base Database: Custom Software Images
The ability to create a custom software image for Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure with all the required updates bundled ...
Base Database: AMD E5 flex shape
You can now use the AMD E5 flexible shape for your DB system. Flexible shapes let you customize the number ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Use the Same Custom Software Image Across OCI Regions
With this enhancement, you can use the software image created in one region in a different region while:
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Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Ability to Increase the Size of Guest VM Local File Systems
Currently, you can only increase or decrease the size of the /u02
file system in the Guest VM. Now, using ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Ability to Increase the Size of Guest VM Local File Systems
Currently, you can only increase or decrease the size of the /u02
file system in the Guest VM. Now, using ...
Base Database: Backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association for Autonomous Recovery Service
You can now backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association for the Autonomous Recovery Service. ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Create and Use Custom Software Images
The ability to create a custom software image (Database and Grid Infrastructure) with all the required patches bundled together and ...
Manage Serial Console Access to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure Systems
Note: The serial console feature requires (at a minimum) Exadata System Software 23.1.13. Once the necessary software is installed via ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Create and Use Custom Software Images
The ability to create a custom software image (Database and Grid Infrastructure) with all the required patches bundled together and ...
Base Database: Oracle Database 23ai is available on Base Database Service
Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Base Database Service. With this release, you can perform all ...
Oracle Database 23ai on Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D). With this ...
Oracle Database 23ai on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C). With this release, ...
Base Database: Restore a backup to create a database across regions
You can now use an existing backup and restore it to create a database (out-of-place restore) across availability domains within ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Provision for Free Developer Database
Customers who have subscribed to Oracle Exadata Database Service or Autonomous Database on either a Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure or Exadata ...
Autonomous Database for Developers is available on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
Customers who have subscribed to Autonomous Database on either Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure or Exadata Cloud@Customer can create and use Autonomous ...
Base Database: OCI Vault integration for cross-region Data Guard
You can now set up a cross-region Data Guard between two databases if their keys are residing in a virtual ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Enhancements to Serial Console Functionality
These new features include:
- Serial Console access via OCI Cloud Shell
- Console History
With this ...
Announcing availability of Oracle Database@Azure multicloud database service
Oracle Database@Azure is an Oracle Cloud Database service that runs Oracle Database workloads in Azure. All hardware for Oracle Database@Azure ...
Base Database: Use SQL Worksheet for Pluggable Databases
You can now launch and use the SQL Worksheet for your Pluggable Databases from the Console.
For more information, ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Provision a VM Cluster with Either an OL7 or OL8-Based Image
With this enhancement, you can provision a VM cluster with either an OL7-based image or an OL8-based one if the ...
Base Database: Backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association
You can now backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association.
For more information, see ...
Base Database: Upgrade operating system to Oracle Linux 8
You can now upgrade the operating system of your DB system to Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) using the Console or ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: VM Cluster on a Single VM
With this enhancement, you can deploy and run multiple databases in a VM cluster running on a single VM without ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Enhancement to Pluggable Database (PDB) Management
With this enhancement, you can restore, refresh, and relocate a Pluggable Database (PDB).
For more information, see:
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Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Enhancement to Pluggable Database (PDB) Management
With this enhancement, you can restore, refresh, and relocate a Pluggable Database (PDB).
For more information, see:
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Base Database: Enhancements to Pluggable Database (PDB) management
You can now restore, relocate, and refresh Pluggable Databases.
For more information, see About Pluggable Databases.
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Manage Administrator (SYS User) and TDE Wallet Passwords
With this enhancement, you can manage the administrator and TDE wallet passwords.
Note: Changing a TDE wallet password for ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Manage Administrator (SYS User) and TDE Wallet Passwords
With this enhancement, you can manage the administrator and TDE wallet passwords.
Note Changing a TDE wallet password for ...
Instance level details in AWR Reports from Performance Hub
The Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) Report in Performance Hub has an additional option for instance level reports. You can now ...
Manage AWR snapshot collection for your database using Performance Hub
You can now customize the settings for AWR snapshot collection using the Performance Hub application in OCI. This feature helps ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Backup and Restore from a Standby Database in a Data Guard Environment
With this enhancement, you can:
- Enables customers to offload backups to the standby database in a Data Guard ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Cancel a Running Full or Incremental Backup
You now have the ability to cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Cancel a Running Full or Incremental Backup
You now have the ability to cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no ...
Base Database: Autonomous Recovery Service as the Default Backup Destination
You now have default limits for Autonomous Recovery Service without having to request them. This is now available in the ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Autonomous Recovery Service as the Default Backup Destination
This Console enhancement provides default limits automatically for a select subset of regions GRU
(Sao Paulo), VCP
(Vinhedo), YUL
(Montreal), ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Autonomous Recovery Service as the Default Backup Destination
This Console enhancement provides default limits automatically for a select subset of regions GRU
Sao Paulo, VCP
Vinhedo, YUL
Montreal, ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Update Guest VM (domU) Operating System to Oracle Linux 8
Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Update Guest VM (domU) Operating System to Oracle Linux 8
Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Exadata Fleet Update
Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Exadata Fleet Update
Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this ...
Exadata Fleet Update OCI service
Oracle Exadata Database Service customers can now update their Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database deployments as a fleet in ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Update Guest VM (domU) Operating System to Oracle Linux 8
Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Update Guest VM (domU) Operating System to Oracle Linux 8
Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Restore a Backup to Create a Database Across Availability Domains within the Same Region
With this enhancement, when AD is up, you can:
- use an existing backup and restore it to create ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Restore a Backup to Create a Database Across Availability Domains within the Same Region
With this enhancement, when AD is up, you can:
- use an existing backup and restore it to create ...
Base Database: Restore a backup to create a database across availability domains within the same region
You can now use an existing backup and restore it to create a new database (out-of-place restore), either within the ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Oracle Key Vault (OKV) Integration with ExaDB-C@C to Manage Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Keys
Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises. ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Oracle Key Vault (OKV) Integration with ExaDB-C@C to Manage Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Keys
Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises. ...
Base Database: Ampere A1 flex shape
You can now use Arm-based Ampere A1 flexible shape for your DB system. Flexible shapes let you customize the number ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: X10M-2 System Support
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer has been extended to support X10M-2 system.
Related Topics
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Manage Serial Console Access to ExaDB-C@C Systems
Note
The Serial Console Access feature has been rolled out only to the YNY
region. It will be rolled out ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Manual Software Updates
This feature enables cloud-only customers to download one-off patches from the OCI console and API. There is no option to ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Interim Software Updates
This feature enables cloud-only customers to download one-off patches from the OCI console and API. There is no option to ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) Support for Client and Backup Networks
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer physical networks (client and backup) are configured to use active-backup by default. This mode ...
Base Database: Enhanced controls to configure automatic full (L0) and incremental (L1) backups
You can now use these enhanced controls for database backups. With these enhanced controls, you can:
- Specify whether ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Enhanced Controls to Configure Automatic Full (L0) and Incremental (L1) Backups
Enabling Automatic Backup during the Create Database workflow or as a separate step afterward starts the first full backup ("initial ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: VM Cluster and Database Health and Performance Metrics in the OCI Console
With this release, Oracle will provide health and performance metrics for databases and VM clusters in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...
Base Database: Cancel a running full or incremental backup
You can now cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no longer have to ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Configure Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service as a Backup Destination
Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service provides an optimized policy-driven automatic backup and recovery system for the Exadata Database on Dedicated ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Application VIP Support
The VM Cluster now supports attaching and detaching Application Virtual IP Addresses.
For more information, see:
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Enable Data Guard with Database Software Image (Custom Image)
If you have provisioned DB Homes with a Database Software Image (DSI), then enabling Data Guard operations will default to ...
Base Database: Health and performance metrics for DB Systems and databases in the Console
You can now monitor the health, capacity, and performance of your DB systems and databases with metrics, alarms, and notifications. ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Use Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
You can configure Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer system to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and ...
Base Database: Configure Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service as a backup destination
Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service provides an optimized policy-driven automatic backup and recovery system for the Base Database Service. It ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Monthly ExaDB-D Infrastructure Security Maintenance
Security maintenance, performed alongside the quarterly maintenance, is executed once a month and includes fixes for vulnerabilities with CVSS scores ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Create Data Guard Associations Across Regions
Create Data Guard associations across regions within your tenancy. This will help you implement an effective disaster recovery plan to ...
New compute model: ECPUs for Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
You can now configure your Autonomous Database resources using a new compute type called ECPUs. For more information about the ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Identity and Access Management (IAM) Integration with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
With the latest Release Update, you can now configure the database in a virtual machine cluster to use Oracle Cloud ...
Base Database: Service gateway rules to support upcoming features
To support upcoming features, OCI cloud automation needs to communicate with various OCI services such as Identity, Object Storage Service ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Databases
Oracle Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure now can accept Azure AD tokens to access the database. Azure AD users can ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Multi-Rack Elastic Compute and Storage Expansion
For certain deployments, you may want to expand beyond the maximum number of compute and storage servers supported within a ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Private DNS
Allow users to choose the private view and private zone while provisioning a new VM cluster for ExaCS. All the ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Enhanced Infrastructure Maintenance Controls
The Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Oracle-managed infrastructure maintenance now allows greater control and visibility including:
- Choice of rolling and ...
Base Database: Performance Metrics for Pluggable Databases
You can now monitor the health and performance of your PDBs by using Database Management metrics and Performance Hub.
...Base Database: Intel X9 flex shape
You can now use Intel X9 flexible shape for your DB system. Flexible shapes let you customize the number of ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Database Management Support for Pluggable Databases in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
You can now enable Database Management for Pluggable Databases (PDBs) on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, and use ...
Base Database: Documentation added on managing Database Management
New articles have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you in managing Database Management.
For ...
Base Database: Documentation added on troubleshooting network connectivity failures
New articles have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you in troubleshooting network connectivity failures.
...Base Database: Microsoft Azure Active Directory integration with Base Database Service
You can now configure the database in the Base Database Service to use Microsoft Azure Active Database authentication and authorization ...
Base Database: Migration from Intel X7 to AMD E4 Shape
You can now migrate your DB system from Intel-based X7 shapes to AMD-based flexible shape E4 by using the Change ...
Base Database: New documentation added on security
New article have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you with security features.
For more ...
Base Database: Documentation added on troubleshooting failures
New articles have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you in troubleshooting failures.
For more ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Create and Manage Multiple Virtual Machines per Exadata System (MultiVM) and VM Cluster Node Subsetting
Slice Exadata resources into multiple virtual machines. Define up to 8 multiple virtual machines (VM) clusters on an Oracle Exadata ...
Oracle Database Service for Azure: MySQL Heatwave now available
You can now create MySQL Heatwave clusters in Oracle Database Service for Azure. For more information, see the following topics ...
Top Activity Lite: A new mode in Performance Hub for live performance monitoring
Performance Hub has a new mode, called Top Activity Lite, that is optimized for live performance monitoring. This mode ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Automatic Diagnostic Collection
This feature extends the Database Service Events feature implementation that enables you to get notified about health issues with your ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Elastic Compute Expansion
Elastic Compute Expansion enables the addition of an arbitrary number of DB Servers to Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure. In conjunction with ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: VM Cluster and Database Health and Performance Metrics in the OCI Console
With this release, Oracle will provide health metrics for databases and VM clusters in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console. ...
Base Database: Identity and Access Management (IAM) integration with Base Database Service
With the latest Release Update, you can now configure the database in a DB system to use OCI Identity and ...
Base Database: Oracle Standard Tags for Base Database Service Resources
Using the OCI tagging system, Base Database Service resources may now be tagged according to your organizational scheme, allowing you ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Oracle Standard Tagging for Resources on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
Exadata Cloud Infrastructure resources can now be tagged using Oracle Standard tags according to your organizational scheme. By tagging resources, ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Automatic Diagnostic Collection
This feature extends the Database Service Events feature implementation that enables you to get notified about health issues with your ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Standard Tagging for Resources on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer resources can now be tagged using Oracle Standard tags according to your organizational scheme. By ...
Base Database: Database Service Events and Log Collection
The diagnostics collection and notifications feature enables Oracle Cloud Operations and you to identify, investigate, track, and resolve guest VM ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Key Management Service for Cross Region Data Guard
You can now have the encryption keys used for the primary and standby databases to be available in the primary ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Concurrently Create or Terminate Oracle Databases in a VM Cluster
With this enhancement, you can now concurrently create or terminate Oracle databases even if the VM cluster is in the ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Enhanced Control to Rollback or Retry Failed Guest VM Operating System Update
You need not mandatorily roll back if applying the Guest VM operating system update fails. A new option, in addition ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Monthly ExaDB-C@C Infrastructure Security Maintenance
Security maintenance, performed alongside the quarterly maintenance, is executed once a month and includes fixes for vulnerabilities with CVSS scores ...
Base Database: TCPS integration
You can now use TCPS to connect when enabling database management support for the Base Database Service.
For more ...
Oracle Database Service for Azure
Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) allows you to easily integrate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Database service into your Azure cloud ...
Base Database: Database Service Events name change
The event names for Base Database Service have changed.
For more information, see Event Types for Base Database Service ...
Base Database: Data Guard enhancements
The Data Guard has now been enhanced with the following functionalities:
- Select your desired time zone for the ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: VM Guest Exadata OS Image Major Version Update
In addition to performing minor version updates to the Exadata VM Cluster images, you can update to a new major ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Database Service Events capability for Exadata Database
This feature allows customers to use OCI Console or API/CLI/SDK/Terraform to receive event notifications about health issues with your Oracle ...
Base Database: Database upgrade with Data Guard
You can now upgrade the database that has a Data Guard association. The upgrade options are available in the Console ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: 'Create database from backup' now available for databases using customer-managed encryption
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D): Now allows you to create a database from backup, when the backup ...
Performance Hub New Feature Run ADDM Task
Performance Hub now allows users to create and run an ADDM task to analyze current or past performance of the ...
Time zone selection is now supported by Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
You can now set a time zone other than UTC or the browser-detected time zone while provisioning an Autonomous Exadata ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Support for DB Home Minor Version Selection (N-3)
Provision a DB Home using a major version and RU version of your choice.
While provisioning, if you opt ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Support for DB Home Minor Version Selection (N-3) Services: Database
Provision a DB Home using a major version and RU version of your choice.
While provisioning, if you opt ...
Base Database: AMD flex shape
Flexible shapes let you customize the number of OCPUs allocated to an instance. When you create a DB system using ...
OCI Vault Integration with Oracle Database Cloud Service
Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption key for ...
Base Database: Image based patching
You can now update a database using the database software images using the Console.
For more information, see Update ...
TCPS Support for External DB using credential reference
This feature allows you to use TCPS to connect when registering external databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, in addition to ...
Base Database: Upgrade Operating System and Oracle Grid Infrastructure
You can now upgrade the operating system and the Oracle Grid Infrastructure using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs. ...
External Database Service: Stack Monitoring integration
You can get real-time information on the performance of applications running on OCI external databases by enabling stack monitoring for ...
New Services available in US Government Cloud with DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization
The following services and features are now available in the US Government Cloud with DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization:
...Exadata Cloud@Customer: VM Guest Exadata OS Image Major Version Update
In addition to performing minor version updates to the Exadata VM Cluster Images, you can now update to a new ...
IAM Database Passwords With Identity Domains
IAM database passwords and tokens centralize Autonomous Database user account management in IAM. They improve security and greatly minimize the ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Database Service Events
Database Service Events feature implementation enables you to get notified about health issues with your Oracle Databases or other components ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Create a new ADB instance from Backup
Restore a backup taken of an Autonomous Database (ADB) into an existing Autonomous Container Database (ACD) on the same or ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Insights Support for Oracle Cloud Databases
Operations Insights now allows you to use the Capacity Planning and SQL Warehouse functionality to gain insight into Oracle Databases ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Multiple Autonomous VM Cluster Support
Multi-VM Cluster supports heterogeneous computing environments in which Autonomous and Non-Autonomous VM clusters can coexist on an Exadata Infrastructure.
...Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Specify the Same SID for Primary and Standby Databases in Data Guard Association
The same SID prefix used for the primary database can now also be used for the standby database when creating ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Enhanced Infrastructure Maintenance Controls
The Exadata Cloud@Customer Oracle-managed infrastructure maintenance now allows greater control and visibility including:
- Choice of rolling and non-rolling ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Control Plane Server (CPS) Offline Diagnostic Report
Control Plane Server (CPS) offline diagnostic report assists you in troubleshooting connectivity issues between the CPS and OCI endpoints.
...Exadata Cloud@Customer: Specify the Same SID for Primary and Standby Databases in a Data Guard Association
The same SID prefix used for the primary database can now also be used for the standby database when creating ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Allow Customers to Choose Data Guard Type
Select a Data Guard type, Active Data Guard or Data Guard, based on the Oracle Database software license type you ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Pluggable Database (PDB) Lifecycle Management
Create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) in Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer systems using the Console and APIs.
For more information, ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Choose Data Guard type using the Console or APIs
For Exadata Cloud Service databases, you can now choose between Oracle Active Data Guard and regular Oracle Data Guard when ...
Virtual machine DB systems: scale data storage and recovery area storage independently
You can now scale up data and recovery storage separately for virtual machine DB systems. For instructions on scaling up ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Database upgrade supported for Data Guard associations
You can now upgrade Exadata databases that are part of a Data Guard association without having to recreate the Data ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Automatic Failover with a Standby Autonomous Container Database
With Fast-Start Failover (FSFO), the system automatically detects the failure of the primary Autonomous Container Database and then fails over ...
Virtual machine and bare metal DB systems: Choose Data Guard type using the Console or APIs
For virtual machine or bare metal DB systems, you can now choose between Oracle Active Data Guard and regular Oracle ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Set DB_UNIQUE_NAME and Oracle SID prefix during database creation
You can now specify the DB_UNIQUE_NAME
value and the Oracle SID prefix when creating a new Oracle Database in Exadata ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Pluggable database lifecycle support
You can now create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) in Exadata Cloud Service using the OCI console and APIs. See ...
Autonomous Database on dedicated cloud infrastructure: encryption key version OCID and key rotation history
You can now view the key version OCID every time you rotate a customer-managed key for your Autonomous Container Database. ...
Autonomous Database on dedicated cloud infrastructure: Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster resource introduced
The infrastructure setup of a Dedicated Autonomous Database has changed with the introduction of the new cloud Autonomous Exadata VM ...
Oracle Database: Encryption key options updated for bare metal, virtual machine, and Exadata Cloud Service databases
When provisioning a new Oracle Database or a new virtual machine or bare metal DB system, the TDE wallet password ...
Performance Hub Exadata Tab
The Exadata tab provides a unified view of Oracle Exadata hard disk and flash performance statistics with deep insight into ...
Operator Access Control for Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer
Operator Access Control has been expanded to provide controls for client virtual machines deployed on Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata ...
Exadata Cloud Service: custom SCAN listener port for VM cluster
You can now specify a custom SCAN listener port for your Exadata cloud VM cluster. See SCAN Listener Port Setting ...
New Services available in US Government Cloud with FedRAMP Authorization
The following services and features are now available in the US Government Cloud with FedRAMP Authorization:
- Autonomous Database ...
Bare metal / virtual machine DB systems: convert 19c non-container databases to pluggable databases
You can now use the Console or Database service APIs to convert a non-container database that uses Oracle Database 19c ...
Bare metal / virtual machine DB systems: enhancements for image-based patching and resource creation
OCI's Databse service has enhanced the capabilities of Database Software Images for patching and creating databases on bare metal and ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: VM Cluster Node Subsetting
VM Cluster Node Subsetting enables you to allocate a subset of database servers to new and existing VM clusters to ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: X9M-2 System Support
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...
Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure: mutual TLS (mTLS) connections
Autonomous Database by default supports Mutual TLS (mTLS) connections. You have the option to configure an Autonomous Database instance to ...
Performance Hub & metrics available for databases running in Exadata Cloud Service, bare metal DB systems, and virtual machine DB systems
You can now use the Performance Hub tool and view metrics on cloud databases that run on the following systems: ...
New Release for Database Management
A new release for Database Management is now available!
You can now:
- Enable and use Database Management ...
Autonomous Database on Dedicated cloud infrastructure: Use KMS encryption with cross-region Data Guard deployments
You can now create cross-region Autonomous Data Guard deployments that use your own Vault service encryption keys for the Autonomous ...
Graphical Explain Plan
The new Graphical Explain Plan option presents a graphical tree representation of the explain plan. It shows a collapsible tree ...
Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems: Oracle Database 21.3 available for database and DB system provisioning
You can now provision a new bare metal or virtual machine DB systems and databases with Oracle Database 21.3.
...Exadata Cloud@Customer: Creating DG Association/Standby Database Using Existing Database Home
Select an existing Database Home or create a new one for the standby while enabling Data Guard association.
For ...
Maintenance advisory contacts for Exadata infrastructure
You can choose to specify up to 10 valid email addresses to which Oracle sends maintenance notifications when updates are ...
Data Guard protection mode enhancement for Exadata, Bare Metal, and Virtual Machine Database Cloud services
You can now specify the Data Guard protection mode for Exadata Cloud Service instances and bare metal and virtual machine ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Download Network Validation Report
Validate and inspect the network validation failure report without active involvement from Oracle Cloud Ops in troubleshooting networking configuration issues. ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Upgrade Oracle Databases
Upgrade Oracle Database 19c (Long Term Release) using the Console and the APIs.
For more information, see:
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Exadata Cloud@Customer: Update Guest VM Operating System
Update the operating system image on Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster nodes in an automated manner from the OCI console and ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure on an Exadata Cloud@Customer VM Cluster
Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) on an Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs.
...Performance Hub Reports
Performance Hub now includes the ability to create, view, and download an active report that contains external database performance data, ...
Autonomous Database on Dedicated cloud infrastructure: Fractional OCPU and GB storage
Create Autonomous Databases that use less than 1 OCPU by assigning a fractional unit from 0.1 to 0.9. You can ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Fractional OCPU and GB Storage
Create Autonomous Databases with less than 1 OCPU count using fractional units from 0.1 to 0.9 OCPU and GB sizing ...
PDB Management for Database Cloud Service
PDB management is now available for Database Cloud Service. With this release, you can create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) ...
Database Critical events for DB systems
The Events service now provides "critical" events for DB systems, and database nodes and databases located in DB systems. Critical ...
OCI Vault Integration with Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-S)
Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-S) integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Customer-Managed Keys in the Vault Service
Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Autonomous Data Guard enabled Autonomous Databases on Exadata Cloud@Customer and use customer-managed ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Elastic Storage Expansion
With elastic storage expansion, you can dynamically increase your storage capacity to meet your growing workload requirements.
Expand the ...
Autonomous Database on Dedicated infrastructure: Restrict Access Using a Network Access Control List
You can now set up network access control lists (ACLs) to allow specific IP addresses or CIDR blocks to access ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Non-rolling infrastructure patching option now available
You can now configure Exadata infrastructure patching to take place in a non-rolling fashion across the database nodes. This option ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Infrastructure Patching
ADB-Dedicated maintenance involves patching Exadata Infrastructure (EI) Autonomous VM Cluster, and Autonomous Container Database (ACD).
For more information, see: ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Operator Access Control
Oracle Operator Access Control is a compliance audit system that enables you to maintain close management and audit trails of ...
Cross-availability domain Oracle Data Guard deployments can access the same regional key management vault
When you enable Oracle Data Guard on an Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can locate the standby database ...
External Database Service: Support for RAC databases
You can now register and manage RAC databases located outside of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) alongside your OCI Oracle Databases ...
Always Free Autonomous Database: APEX and JSON workload types available
You can now provision an Always Free Autonomous Database with the JSON or APEX workload type. See Overview of the ...
External Database: Support for Operations Insights now available
The External Database service now offers Operations Insights, providing a 360-degree insight into the resource utilization and capacity of ...
Maintenance advisory contacts for Autonomous Databases on shared Exadata Infrastructure
You can choose to specify up to 10 valid email addresses to which Oracle sends maintenance notifications when updates are ...
Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle Exadata X8M
You can select X8M as a model when provisioning an Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure resource.
Customer-managed encryption keys available with Oracle Data Guard-enabled databases in Exadata Cloud Service
Customer-managed keys for Exadata Cloud Service is an encryption key management service that enables you to encrypt your data using ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Database Software Images
Database software images enable you to create a customized Oracle Database software configuration that includes your chosen updates (PSU, RU, ...
Virtual machine DB systems: cloning available for RAC systems
You can now clone virtual machine DB systems that use Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). See Cloning a Virtual Machine ...
Maintenance History for Autonomous Databases on Shared Exadata Infrastructure
You can view the maintenance history for a specific Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure. See Checking the Scheduling of ...
Performance Hub for External Databases
The Performance Hub for External Databases feature extends the capability of using Performance Hub to monitor the performance of OCI ...
Virtual machine DB systems: assign a custom IP address during system provisioning
For non-RAC DB systems, you can now define the IP address of the new DB system during provisioning. This is ...
One-off Patching for Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
One-off patching is available for certain resources on dedicated Exadata Infrastructure when customers file a service request with My Oracle ...
ExaCS OS/DomU Patching Project
DomU OS Patching is a feature which enables ExaCS customers to upgrade the Exadata OS image on their domU nodes ...
Performance Hub: General layout and usability improvements
The Performance Hub user interface has been updated to allow customers to view the Performance Hub data more easily and ...
External Database service for Oracle Databases located outside of OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) now offers a way to register, manage, and monitor Oracle Databases that are located outside of ...
Database Management available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console
Database Management provides comprehensive database performance diagnostics and management capabilities to monitor and manage Oracle Databases located on premises and ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Access Control List (ACL) to Restrict Access to Autonomous Data Guard Enabled Autonomous Databases
An access control list (ACL) provides additional protection to your database by allowing only the clients with specific IP addresses ...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault Integration with Exadata Cloud Service
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault service integration with Exadata Cloud Service enables database encryption with customer-managed keys. For more information, see ...
Oracle APEX Application Development
Oracle APEX Application Development (APEX Service) provides citizen and professional developers with a fully-managed, low-code application development and deployment platform ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Monitor Performance with Autonomous Database Metrics
You can monitor the health, capacity, and performance of your Autonomous Databases with metrics, alarms, and notifications. You can use ...
Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems: Oracle Database 21c available for provisioning new DB systems
You can now provision a new bare metal or virtual machine DB system with Oracle Database 21c. For more information ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Infrastructure Patching Automation
You can now schedule a maintenance window for Oracle-managed Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure patching.
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ORDS and SSL Certificate Rotation Available
You can rotate the security certificates for Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) in an Autonomous ...
Troubleshooting Data Guard on Exadata DB Systems
\this topic explains the steps to identify and resolve the issues when troubleshooting Exadata Data Guard during the Data Guard ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Oracle Database 19c upgrade feature available
You can now upgrade Exadata Cloud Service databases to Oracle Database version 19c using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or ...
ADBS- Multi DB Version Enhancements - Free Tier Version Selection
While configuring an Always Free Autonomous Database you can now select the version of the database to use. The user ...
Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems: Upgrade database instances to Oracle Database 19c using the Console or API
You can now perform an in-place database upgrade for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems that use the Oracle ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Autonomous Data Guard
Enabling Autonomous Data Guard on an Autonomous Container Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure creates a standby (peer) Autonomous Container Database ...
Update administrator and TDE wallet passwords from the Console's Database Details page of a bare metal or virtual machine DB system database
You can now manage your administrator and TDE wallet passwords for bare metal and virtual machine DB system databases from ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Access Control List
An access control list (ACL) provides additional protection to your database by allowing only the clients with specific IP addresses ...
Create custom database software images for Exadata Cloud Service instances
You can now create custom Oracle Database software images to use for provisioning Database Homes and and patching databases in ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Key Vault (OKV) Integration
Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises.
...Virtual machine DB systems: rolling shape change
Virtual machine DB system shape changes now take place in a rolling fashion across the system nodes, allowing you to ...
Performance Hub ADDM Tab
The Performance Hub Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) tab includes controls to access the information stored by ADDM. ADDM analyzes ...
Exadata Cloud Service: the flexible X8M shape now available
You can now provision an Exadata Cloud Service instance using the flexible X8M shape. This shape allows you to expand ...
Exadata Cloud Service: use an existing Database Home when setting up a Data Guard standby database
You can now choose to use an existing Database Home when setting up a Data Guard standby database in your ...
Exadata Cloud Service: grid infrastructure upgrade for cloud VM clusters
You can now upgrade the grid infrastructure (GI) of an Exadata Cloud Service VM cluster using the Console. For more ...
Autonomous Data Guard for Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
Enabling Autonomous Data Guard on an Autonomous Container Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure creates a standby (peer) Autonomous Container Database ...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault service integration with Autonomous Databases
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault service integration with Autonomous Databases on dedicated Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure enables database encryption with customer-managed keys. ...
OCI Vault Integration with Dedicated Autonomous Database Service
Dedicated Autonomous Database Service integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption key for autonomous ...
ADB-D on Exadata Cloud@Customer: X8M-2 System Support
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Customer Maintenance Contacts
Maintenance contacts are required for service request based communications for hardware replacement and other maintenance events.
Add a primary ...
Read-only mode and restricted access for Autonomous Databases
Autonomous Databases allow for read-only access and for access restricted only to the ADMIN user or users with administrator privileges. ...
Create custom database software images for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems
You can now create custom Oracle Database software images to use for provisioning and patching databases in virtual machine and ...
Virtual machine DB system cloning available for single-node systems using LVM storage management
You can now create a clone of a virtual machine DB system that has been created with the "fast provisioning" ...
Autonomous Database now offers refreshable clones
You can now create a refreshable clone of an Autonomous Database deployed on shared Exadata infrastructure. With a refreshable clone, ...
Performance Hub: ASH Sample Resolution
The ASH Sample Resolution menu gives users the ability to control the sampling of ASH data displayed in the Average ...
Performance Hub: Workload tab support for ADB-D
The Performance Hub Workload tab now suppots both dedicated Exadata Infrastructure and shared Exadata Infrastructure. For more information, see Performance ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Enable and Manage Data Guard Associations
Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data.
Enable a Data Guard association ...
Performance Hub Blocking Sessions Tab
The Performance Hub Blocking Sessions Tab is now avaialble for Autonomous Databases on both shared Exadata Infrastructure and dedicated Exadata ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: X8M-2 System Support
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...
Oracle Autonomous Databases on shared Exadata Infrastructure support private endpoints for Data Safe
Oracle Autonomous Databases running on shared Exadata infrastructure and using private endpoints are now compatible with Data Safe. For ...
Autonomous JSON Database
Autonomous JSON Database is a service added to Autonomous Database services that you can deploy on shared Exadata infrastructure. Autonomous ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Deployment Assistant
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer Deployment Assistant is an automated installation and configuration tool that enables you to set up your Oracle ...
Rename Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure
You can rename an Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure. For more information, see To rename an Autonomous Database on ...
Maintenance quarters offset by one month for Autonomous Databases on dedicated Exatadata infrastructure and Exadata DB Systems
Maintenance quarters are offset forward by one month to February, May, August, and November, with the first maintenance quarter of ...
Patch Autonomous Container Databases and Exadata infrastuctures immediately
You can immediately patch Autonomous Container Databases and Exadata infrastructures at any point during the scheduled maintenance cycle.
For ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database Patching
You can now view, pre-check, and apply Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database patches by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Per-Second Billing for Autonomous Database OCPU Usage
Exadata Cloud@Customer Gen2 uses per-second billing for OCPUs. This means that OCPU usage is billed by the second, with a ...
Provision a standby Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure using Autonomous Data Guard
You can now provision a standby (peer) Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure for data protection and disaster recovery using ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Per-Second Billing for OCPU Usage
Exadata Cloud@Customer Gen2 uses per-second billing for OCPUs. This means that OCPU usage is billed by the second, with a ...
Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems now use per-second billing
Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems now use per-second billing. This means that OCPU and storage usage is billed ...
Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure resources now use per-second billing
Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure resources now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage period of 48 hours. This replaces hourly billing ...
Data Safe available for Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure
Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure can now be registered with Data Safe, a unified cloud service control center that ...
Autonomous Database network access: in-place switch to a private endpoint now available for databases using shared Exadata infrastructure
You can now perform an in-place update of your Autonomous Database network access configuration to switch to a private endpoint. ...
Exadata cloud DB systems now use per-second billing
Exadata DB systems provisioned in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage of 48 hours. This ...
Exadata Database Home tagging available
You can now add tags to Database Homes in an Exadata DB system. See Resource Tags for information on tagging ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer combines the benefits of a self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database management system and ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Shared Database Home Resource Tags
You can now add, update, and remove tags applied to a shared Database Home resource.
For more information, see: ...
Create a point-in-time copy of a database in a virtual machine or bare metal DB system
You can now create a point-in-time copy of a database in a virtual machine or bare metal DB system. For ...
Create a database using an archived redo log backup in a virtual machine or bare metal DB system
You can now create a database from the lastest archived redo log backup of databases that use virtual machine or ...
Performance Hub: Download AWR reports
The Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) collects, processes, and maintains performance statistics for problem detection and self-tuning purposes. This data is both in memory and stored in the database. From the Performance Hub you can generate and download a report of the gathered data.
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Scale OCPUs Without Cloud Connectivity
Exadata Cloud@Customer is considered to be in a "disconnected" mode when there is a loss of connectivity with the Database ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Create and Manage Multiple Virtual Machines per Exadata System (MultiVM)
Slice Exadata resources into multiple virtual machines. Define up to 8 multiple virtual machines (VM) clusters on an Oracle Exadata ...
Performance Hub time zone selector
The Performance Hub database analysis tool now offers a time zone selector, allowing you to view Performance Hub reports in ...
Performance Hub Blocking Sessions
The Performance Hub Blocking Sessions feature provides information about blocking and waiting sessions for a selected Autonomous Database and includes ...
Events for Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure: 19C database version upgrade
Two additional Autonomous Database events are now available:
- Upgrade Begin
- Upgrade End
These events are ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Configure Oracle Database Character Set and National Character Set
Before you create the database, decide the character set that you want to use.
After a database is created, ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Specify a Time Zone While Provisioning Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer Infrastructure
The default time zone for the Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure is UTC. The time is displayed in the UTC format ...
Switch your Oracle Database license type for Exadata, bare metal, and virtual machine DB systems
You can now update the license type of your DB system from License Included to Bring Your Own License (BYOL), ...
Autonomous Database: Performance Hub now offers Workload tab
Performance Hub now includes a new Workload tab that displays four sets of graphically displayed data to help users monitor ...
Autonomous Database version 19c manual upgrade available
Oracle automatically upgrades your instance to the latest version of Oracle Database after notifying you in advance. However, you can ...
Exadata DB system grid infrastructure and database patching
You can now patch an Exadata DB system's grid infrastructure and databases by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, API, ...
Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure: Full-rack infrastructure shape now available
You can now provision a full-rack Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. For more information on using dedicated ...
Exadata DB system database creation from backup
You can now create a database in an Exadata DB system by using a backup. For more information, see To ...
Exadata infrastructure patching
You can now schedule a maintenance window for Oracle-managed Exadata infrastructure patching. For more information, see Maintaining an Exadata DB ...
Upgrade Autonomous Databases on shared Exadata infrastructure to Oracle Database 19c
Autonomous Databases on shared Exadata infrastructure can now be upgraded to Oracle Database 19c. For more information, see To upgrade ...
Autonomous Databases with shared Exadata infrastructure now use per-second billing
Autononomous Databases using shared Exadata infrastructure now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage of 60 seconds. This replaces hourly ...
Configuring Oracle Data Guard across regions
You can configure Oracle Data Guard on primary and standby databases that are in different regions. This applies to bare ...
Autonomous Database with shared Exadata infrastructure: "restart" button and API
You can now restart an Autonomous Database that uses shared Exadata infrastructure by clicking a single button in the console, ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Shared Database Homes
Use a single Oracle Home for multiple databases. Besides saving space, sharing an Oracle Database Home with multiple databases provides ...
Serial console connections to bare metal or virtual machine DB systems available for system management and troubleshooting
You can now create and delete serial console connections to your bare metal or virtual machine DB system in the ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: X7-2 System Support
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...
Virtual machine DB system node rebooting for planned maintenance
You can now manually reboot a virtual machine DB system node that has scheduled maintenance. Doing so allows you to ...
Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure: Creating clones across container databases
You can create full and metadata clones from an Autonomous Database on a dedicated Exatada Infrastructure instance into different container ...
Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure: Auto scaling available for databases
Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure now have the ability to automatically scale OCPU cores. The auto scaling feature allows ...
Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure -- additional database metrics available
For Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now use the Monitoring service to view database metrics. For more ...
Exadata and Autonomous Database: Pay-as-you-go option available for X7 and X8 infrastructure
Exadata and Autonomous Database customers can use a pay-as-you-go option for Exadata infrastructure instances. Use instances only as long as ...
Time zone selection for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems
When you provision a bare metal or virtual machine DB system, you can now select a time zone other than ...
Bare metal and virtual machine DB system patching - previous patch now offered for patching
When patching a virtual machine or bare metal DB system, the Console now displays the latest DB system patch and ...
Changing the shape of a virtual machine DB system
You can change the shape of a virtual machine DB system to scale up the OCPUs for increased performance, or ...
Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure: Single-click database restart available
For Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now restart a database with a single click on the Console, ...
Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure: X8 shapes now available
For Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now provision X8 Exadata hardware shapes. Quarter and half racks available. ...
Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure: Half rack shapes now available
For Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now provision a half rack Exadata infrastructure instance.
For more ...
Private endpoint for Autonomous Database with shared Exadata infrastructure
For Autonomous Databases using shared Exadata infrastructure, you can now provision the database with a private network endpoint within your ...
Oracle Database 20c preview version available for virtual machine DB systems
You can now provision a virtual machine DB system with Oracle 20c preview version software to do development and application ...
Autonomous Database with shared Exadata infrastructure: Choice of Oracle Database versions at provisioning
Depending on the region where you provision or clone your database, Autonomous Database supports one or more Oracle Database versions. ...
Autonomous Database: Compartment quota limits available for dedicated Exadata infrastructure storage and CPU resources
You can now write compartment quota policies to control the consumption of storage and CPU resources for your Autonomous Databases ...
Support for different shapes in a DB system Data Guard association
You can now use different shapes within the same shape type for the primary and the standby databases in a ...
Autonomous Database: Clone a database from a backup
You can now clone an Autonomous Database using a backup as your source. For more information, see Cloning an Autonomous ...
January 2020 Patch
The January 2020 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...
Shared Database Homes for Exadata DB Systems
You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, API, or CLI to create and manage shared Oracle Database Homes ...
Database: Work request support for bare metal, VM, and Exadata DB systems
You can now monitor long-running operations using work requests for bare metal, VM, and Exadata DB systems. See Work Requests ...
Autonomous Database: Maintenance scheduling available for container databases (dedicated Exadata infrastructure only)
You can now set the scheduling of your container database maintenance updates for Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure. See ...
Oracle Database 19c on bare metal DB systems
You can now run Oracle Database 19c on bare metal DB systems. For more information, see Supported Database Editions and ...
X8 Shapes for Exadata DB Systems
You can now create Exadata DB systems on X8 hardware. For system configuration details, see Exadata DB Systems.
Autonomous Database: Maintenance Schedule Details Available in Console (serverless deployments)
Autonomous Databases with serverless deployment now display scheduling details for the next maintenance run in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. ...
October 2019 Patch
The October 2019 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...
Autonomous Database: Add VCNs and private IP addresses to Access Control Lists (serverless deployments)
You can now add VCNs to your Autonomous Database's Access Control List (ACL). This applies to serverless deployments only. You ...
Autonomous Database: Access SQL Developer Web, Application Express (APEX), and Oracle Machine Learning User Administration from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console
Autonomous Database users can now quickly access the following database tools from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console: SQL Developer Web, ...
Custom DNS resolver for bare metal and 1-node virtual machine DB systems
To handle DNS resolution for bare metal and 1-node virtual machine DB systems, you can now use a custom DNS ...
Autonomous Database: Enhancement for Wallet for Serverless Deployments
For Autonomous Databases with serverless deployment, you now have the choice of downloading either a single database instance wallet or ...
Fast provisioning option for 1-node virtual machine DB systems
For 1-node virtual machine DB systems, there is now a fast provisioning option that allows you to create your DB ...
Performance Hub now available for Autonomous Databases with dedicated deployment
Oracle's Performance Hub tool for database performance analysis and tuning is now available for Autonomous Databases with dedicated deployment. See ...
Cloning available for Autonomous Databases with dedicated deployment
You can now create a full clone or a metadata-only clone of an Autonomous Database with dedicated deployment. See Cloning ...
Autonomous Data Warehouse available with dedicated deployment
You can now provision an Autonomous Data Warehouse using the dedicated deployment option, which gives you exclusive use of the ...
Gen2 Exadata Cloud at Customer
Work requests available for Autonomous Databases
Backup scheduling available for Database service bare metal, VM, and Exadata DB systems
You can optionally specify a 2-hour scheduling window for your database during which the automatic backup process will begin for ...
Network security groups (NSGs) for Autonomous Databases with dedicated deployment
Network security groups (NSGs), an optional Networking feature available with dedicated deployment, act as a virtual firewall for your Autonomous ...
July 2019 Patch
The July 2019 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...
Oracle Database 19c on virtual machine DB systems
You can now run Oracle Database 19c on virtual machine DB systems. For more information, see Supported Database Editions and ...
Improved DB system resource creation and management workflows
The Database service now features more intuitive workflows for creating and managing bare metal, virtual machine, and Exadata DB system ...
Autonomous Transaction Processing Dedicated Deployments
You can now deploy Autonomous Transaction Processing databases on dedicated Exadata infrastructure. For more information, see Overview of Autonomous Transaction ...
Exadata base system
Exadata DB system shape options now include a base system. This shape is similar to a quarter rack but with ...
Exadata Managed Data Guard
You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or API to enable Data Guard on Exadata DB systems. For ...
Exadata Managed Backups
You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or API to manage database backup and restore operations on Exadata ...
Oracle Database 19c on Exadata DB systems
You can now run Oracle Database 19c on Exadata DB systems. For more information, see Supported Database Edition and Versions ...
Auto scaling Autonomous Databases
Autonomous Database's auto scaling feature enables the system to automatically adjust the number of CPU cores as load demand fluctuates, ...
Database: Customize the backup retention period for your bare metal or VM database
If you are enabling automatic backups for a bare metal or virtual machine database, you can now choose one of ...
Access control lists for Autonomous Databases
You can now create an access control list (ACL) for your Autonomous Database after you provision it by using the ...
Updating license type for Autonomous Databases
You can now change your license type for your Autonomous Database after you provision it by using the Oracle Cloud ...
Cloning Autonomous Databases
You can now clone an Autonomous Database by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or the API. For information and ...
Oracle Linux 7 on Exdata DB systems
Exadata DB systems provisioned after March 14, 2019 run on Oracle Linux 7 (OL7). Previously launched systems are running Oracle ...
Exadata I/O Resource Management (IORM)
You can now manage how multiple databases share the I/O resources of an Oracle Exadata DB system. See Managing Exadata ...
Unified list of Autonomous Databases in the Console and API
In the Console, Autonomous Transaction Processing databases and Autonomous Data Warehouse databases now appear in a common list of Autonomous ...
January 2019 Patch
The January 2019 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...
Connection strings for bare metal and VM database administration service
You can now obtain connection strings for the administration service of a CDB or 11g database of a bare metal ...
Create Databases from Automatic Daily Backups
You can now create a new database from an automatic daily backup, or use a daily backup to launch a new DB system.
October 2018 Patch
The October 2018 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...
Older database release versions available for virtual machine DB system databases
You can now provision virtual machine databases using older versions of Oracle Database software. For each database edition offered for virtual machine DB systems, you can choose to provision a database with either the current release version of the software, or with either of the two most recent release versions. For more information, see Bare Metal and Virtual Machine DB Systems.
Data Guard for virtual machine DB systems
You can now use the console or the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API to enable Data Guard for a virtual machine ...
Exadata sparse disk
You can now configure a sparse disk group when you provision an Exadata DB system. The sparse disk enables you ...
Region-based automatic backup window
After November 20, 2018, newly-enabled automatic backups will run daily backups between midnight and 6:00 AM using the time zone ...
On-premises database migration by using standalone backup
You can migrate an on-premises database to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by creating a standalone backup of your on-premises database in ...
July 2018 patch
The July 2018 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...
Autonomous Transaction Processing
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Autonomous Transaction Processing gives you your own fully managed, pre-configured transaction processing database environment, without the need ...
Oracle Database 18c Release 1 (18.0.0.0) on Exadata
You can now run Oracle Database 18.0.0.0 on Exadata DB systems.
Managed create and delete database for Exadata
You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or API to add a database to an existing Exadata DB ...
X7 Exadata shapes
Exadata DB systems are now available on X7. For more information, see Exadata DB Systems.
Note that you ...
Autonomous Data Warehouse
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Autonomous Data Warehouse gives you your own fully managed, pre-configured data warehousing environment, without the need to ...
Service gateway option
Your DB systems that use Object Storage for backup and patching no longer need to be in a public subnet ...
April 2018 patch
The April 2018 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.
DB system creation from backup
You can now create a bare metal or virtual machine DB system using a standalone backup. For more information, see ...
Tags for DB system resources
You can now apply tags to your DB systems and databases. See Overview of Tags.
January 2018 patch
The January 2018 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.
X7 bare metal and virtual machine shapes
Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems are now available on X7. For more information, see Bare Metal and Virtual ...
Oracle Database 18c Release 1 (18.1) on bare metal and virtual machine
You can now run Oracle Database 18.1.0.0 on bare metal and virtual machine DB Systems.
Virtual machine DB system managed patching
You can now patch virtual machine DB systems by using the Console or the API. For more information, see Patching ...
October 2017 patch
The October 2017 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.
August 2017 patch
The August 2017 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.
Increased storage for 2-node RAC DB Systems
The BM.RACLocalStorage1.72 shape now provides 64 TB of raw storage.
Virtual Machine DB System managed backups
You can now use the Console or the API to manage backing up and restoring a Virtual Machine DB System ...
Database creation from backup
You can now use a standalone backup to create a database in a bare metal DB system. For more information, ...
Patching
The April 2017 patch is now available, and patching operations using the Console or API now include pre-check. For more ...
Managed backups
You can now use the Console or the API to manage backups to Oracle Cloud InfrastructureObject Storage. For more information, ...
Bring your own license (BYOL)
Oracle Database customers with an Unlimited License Agreement or Non-Unlimited License Agreement can use their license with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. ...
Virtual Machine DB Systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database service is now available on virtual machines. For more information, see Virtual Machine DB Systems. ...
Oracle Data Guard
You can now use the Console or the API to enable and manage Oracle Data Guard functionality. For more information, ...
Patching
You can now patch a DB System and a database home using the Console or the API.
Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)
You can now run Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 on all DB Systems.
Exadata DB Systems
You can now launch Exadata DB Systems. For more information, see Exadata DB Systems.
2-node RAC DB Systems
You can now launch 2-node Real Application Clusters (RAC) DB Systems. For more information, see Bare Metal and Virtual Machine ...
CLI
The odacli CLI is now the dbcli CLI. For more information, see Oracle Database CLI Reference.
Patching
You can now use CLI commands to patch a DB System. For more information, see Patching a DB System. ...
Backups
You can now use CLI commands to back up databases to Object Storage. For more information, see Objectstoreswift Commands. ...
Database service
The new Database service is now available. You can buy the service at the Oracle Store.