Database

360 Release Notes

Exadata Fleet Update OCI service

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 02, 2023

Oracle Exadata Database Service customers can now update their Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database deployments as a fleet in ...

Base Database: TCPS integration

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: July 27, 2022

You can now use TCPS to connect when enabling database management support for the Base Database Service.

For more ...

Oracle Database Service for Azure

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: July 20, 2022

Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) allows you to easily integrate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Database service into your Azure cloud ...

Base Database: AMD flex shape

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: May 18, 2022

Flexible shapes let you customize the number of OCPUs allocated to an instance. When you create a DB system using ...

Performance Hub Exadata Tab

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: November 16, 2021

The Exadata tab provides a unified view of Oracle Exadata hard disk and flash performance statistics with deep insight into ...

Graphical Explain Plan

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 24, 2021

The new Graphical Explain Plan option presents a graphical tree representation of the explain plan. It shows a collapsible tree ...

Performance Hub Reports

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: July 08, 2021

Performance Hub now includes the ability to create, view, and download an active report that contains external database performance data, ...

ExaCS OS/DomU Patching Project

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: February 05, 2021

DomU OS Patching is a feature which enables ExaCS customers to upgrade the Exadata OS image on their domU nodes ...

Oracle APEX Application Development

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: December 15, 2020

Oracle APEX Application Development (APEX Service) provides citizen and professional developers with a fully-managed, low-code application development and deployment platform ...

Performance Hub ADDM Tab

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: October 19, 2020

The Performance Hub Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) tab includes controls to access the information stored by ADDM. ADDM analyzes ...

Performance Hub Blocking Sessions Tab

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 19, 2020

The Performance Hub Blocking Sessions Tab is now avaialble for Autonomous Databases on both shared Exadata Infrastructure and dedicated Exadata ...

Autonomous JSON Database

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 11, 2020

Autonomous JSON Database is a service added to Autonomous Database services that you can deploy on shared Exadata infrastructure. Autonomous ...

Performance Hub: Download AWR reports

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 16, 2020

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.

Performance Hub Blocking Sessions

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 02, 2020

The Performance Hub Blocking Sessions feature provides information about blocking and waiting sessions for a selected Autonomous Database and includes ...

January 2020 Patch

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: January 21, 2020
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The January 2020 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...

October 2019 Patch

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: November 21, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The October 2019 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...

July 2019 Patch

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 19, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The July 2019 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...

Exadata base system

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 14, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Exadata DB system shape options now include a base system. This shape is similar to a quarter rack but with ...

Exadata Managed Data Guard

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 13, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or API to enable Data Guard on Exadata DB systems. For ...

Exadata Managed Backups

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 13, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or API to manage database backup and restore operations on Exadata ...

Auto scaling Autonomous Databases

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 04, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Autonomous Database's auto scaling feature enables the system to automatically adjust the number of CPU cores as load demand fluctuates, ...

Cloning Autonomous Databases

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: March 18, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

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

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: March 14, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Exadata DB systems provisioned after March 14, 2019 run on Oracle Linux 7 (OL7). Previously launched systems are running Oracle ...

January 2019 Patch

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: February 27, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The January 2019 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...

October 2018 Patch

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: January 17, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

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

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: December 17, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

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.

Exadata sparse disk

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: December 14, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

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

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: November 20, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

After November 20, 2018, newly-enabled automatic backups will run daily backups between midnight and 6:00 AM using the time zone ...

July 2018 patch

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 22, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The July 2018 patch for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems and databases is now available. For more information, ...

Autonomous Transaction Processing

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 03, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Autonomous Transaction Processing gives you your own fully managed, pre-configured transaction processing database environment, without the need ...

Autonomous Data Warehouse

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 14, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

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

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: June 12, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Your DB systems that use Object Storage for backup and patching no longer need to be in a public subnet ...

DB system creation from backup

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: May 10, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now create a bare metal or virtual machine DB system using a standalone backup. For more information, see ...

Database creation from backup

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: October 30, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use a standalone backup to create a database in a bare metal DB system. For more information, ...

Patching

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: October 13, 2017

The April 2017 patch is now available, and patching operations using the Console or API now include pre-check. For more ...

Managed backups

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: October 13, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

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)

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: September 27, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Oracle Database customers with an Unlimited License Agreement or Non-Unlimited License Agreement can use their license with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. ...

Oracle Data Guard

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: September 27, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use the Console or the API to enable and manage Oracle Data Guard functionality. For more information, ...

Patching

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: September 18, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now patch a DB System and a database home using the Console or the API.

Patching

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: April 20, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use CLI commands to patch a DB System. For more information, see Patching a DB System. ...

Backups

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: April 20, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use CLI commands to back up databases to Object Storage. For more information, see Objectstoreswift Commands. ...