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The ability to create a custom software image for Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure with all the required updates bundled ...

You can now use the AMD E5 flexible shape for your DB system. Flexible shapes let you customize the number ...

With this enhancement, you can use the software image created in one region in a different region while:

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Currently, you can only increase or decrease the size of the /u02 file system in the Guest VM. Now, using ...

Currently, you can only increase or decrease the size of the /u02 file system in the Guest VM. Now, using ...

You can now backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association for the Autonomous Recovery Service. ...

The ability to create a custom software image (Database and Grid Infrastructure) with all the required patches bundled together and ...

Note: The serial console feature requires (at a minimum) Exadata System Software 23.1.13. Once the necessary software is installed via ...

The ability to create a custom software image (Database and Grid Infrastructure) with all the required patches bundled together and ...

Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Base Database Service. With this release, you can perform all ...

Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D). With this ...

Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C). With this release, ...

You can now use an existing backup and restore it to create a database (out-of-place restore) across availability domains within ...

Customers who have subscribed to Oracle Exadata Database Service or Autonomous Database on either a Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure or Exadata ...

Customers who have subscribed to Autonomous Database on either Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure or Exadata Cloud@Customer can create and use Autonomous ...

You can now set up a cross-region Data Guard between two databases if their keys are residing in a virtual ...

These new features include:

• Serial Console access via OCI Cloud Shell
• Console History

With this ...

Oracle Database@Azure is an Oracle Cloud Database service that runs Oracle Database workloads in Azure. All hardware for Oracle Database@Azure ...

You can now launch and use the SQL Worksheet for your Pluggable Databases from the Console.

For more information, ...

With this enhancement, you can provision a VM cluster with either an OL7-based image or an OL8-based one if the ...

You can now backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association.

For more information, see ...

You can now upgrade the operating system of your DB system to Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) using the Console or ...

With this enhancement, you can deploy and run multiple databases in a VM cluster running on a single VM without ...

With this enhancement, you can restore, refresh, and relocate a Pluggable Database (PDB).

For more information, see:

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With this enhancement, you can restore, refresh, and relocate a Pluggable Database (PDB).

For more information, see:

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You can now restore, relocate, and refresh Pluggable Databases.

For more information, see About Pluggable Databases.

With this enhancement, you can manage the administrator and TDE wallet passwords.

Note: Changing a TDE wallet password for ...

With this enhancement, you can manage the administrator and TDE wallet passwords.

Note Changing a TDE wallet password for ...

The Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) Report in Performance Hub has an additional option for instance level reports. You can now ...

You can now customize the settings for AWR snapshot collection using the Performance Hub application in OCI. This feature helps ...

With this enhancement, you can:

• Enables customers to offload backups to the standby database in a Data Guard ...

You now have the ability to cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no ...

You now have the ability to cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no ...

You now have default limits for Autonomous Recovery Service without having to request them. This is now available in the ...

This Console enhancement provides default limits automatically for a select subset of regions GRU (Sao Paulo), VCP (Vinhedo), YUL (Montreal), ...

This Console enhancement provides default limits automatically for a select subset of regions GRU Sao Paulo, VCP Vinhedo, YUL Montreal, ...

Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...

Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...

Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this ...

Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this ...

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

Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...

Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...

With this enhancement, when AD is up, you can:

• use an existing backup and restore it to create ...

With this enhancement, when AD is up, you can:

• use an existing backup and restore it to create ...

You can now use an existing backup and restore it to create a new database (out-of-place restore), either within the ...

Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises. ...

Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises. ...

You can now use Arm-based Ampere A1 flexible shape for your DB system. Flexible shapes let you customize the number ...

Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer has been extended to support X10M-2 system.

Related Topics

• System Configuration Options for Oracle ...

Note The Serial Console Access feature has been rolled out only to the YNY region. It will be rolled out ...

This feature enables cloud-only customers to download one-off patches from the OCI console and API. There is no option to ...

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 physical networks (client and backup) are configured to use active-backup by default. This mode ...

You can now use these enhanced controls for database backups. With these enhanced controls, you can:

• Specify whether ...

Enabling Automatic Backup during the Create Database workflow or as a separate step afterward starts the first full backup ("initial ...

With this release, Oracle will provide health and performance metrics for databases and VM clusters in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...

You can now cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no longer have to ...

Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service provides an optimized policy-driven automatic backup and recovery system for the Exadata Database on Dedicated ...

The VM Cluster now supports attaching and detaching Application Virtual IP Addresses.

For more information, see:

• About ...

If you have provisioned DB Homes with a Database Software Image (DSI), then enabling Data Guard operations will default to ...

You can now monitor the health, capacity, and performance of your DB systems and databases with metrics, alarms, and notifications. ...

You can configure Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer system to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and ...

Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service provides an optimized policy-driven automatic backup and recovery system for the Base Database Service. It ...

Security maintenance, performed alongside the quarterly maintenance, is executed once a month and includes fixes for vulnerabilities with CVSS scores ...

Create Data Guard associations across regions within your tenancy. This will help you implement an effective disaster recovery plan to ...

You can now configure your Autonomous Database resources using a new compute type called ECPUs. For more information about the ...

With the latest Release Update, you can now configure the database in a virtual machine cluster to use Oracle Cloud ...

To support upcoming features, OCI cloud automation needs to communicate with various OCI services such as Identity, Object Storage Service ...

Oracle Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure now can accept Azure AD tokens to access the database. Azure AD users can ...

For certain deployments, you may want to expand beyond the maximum number of compute and storage servers supported within a ...

Allow users to choose the private view and private zone while provisioning a new VM cluster for ExaCS. All the ...

The Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Oracle-managed infrastructure maintenance now allows greater control and visibility including:

• Choice of rolling and ...

You can now monitor the health and performance of your PDBs by using Database Management metrics and Performance Hub.

You can now use Intel X9 flexible shape for your DB system. Flexible shapes let you customize the number of ...

You can now enable Database Management for Pluggable Databases (PDBs) on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, and use ...

New articles have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you in managing Database Management.

For ...

New articles have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you in troubleshooting network connectivity failures.

You can now configure the database in the Base Database Service to use Microsoft Azure Active Database authentication and authorization ...

You can now migrate your DB system from Intel-based X7 shapes to AMD-based flexible shape E4 by using the Change ...

New article have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you with security features.

For more ...

New articles have been added to the Base Database Service documentation to help you in troubleshooting failures.

For more ...

Slice Exadata resources into multiple virtual machines. Define up to 8 multiple virtual machines (VM) clusters on an Oracle Exadata ...

You can now create MySQL Heatwave clusters in Oracle Database Service for Azure. For more information, see the following topics ...

Performance Hub has a new mode, called Top Activity Lite, that is optimized for live performance monitoring. This mode ...

This feature extends the Database Service Events feature implementation that enables you to get notified about health issues with your ...

Elastic Compute Expansion enables the addition of an arbitrary number of DB Servers to Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure. In conjunction with ...

With this release, Oracle will provide health metrics for databases and VM clusters in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console. ...

With the latest Release Update, you can now configure the database in a DB system to use OCI Identity and ...

Using the OCI tagging system, Base Database Service resources may now be tagged according to your organizational scheme, allowing you ...

Exadata Cloud Infrastructure resources can now be tagged using Oracle Standard tags according to your organizational scheme. By tagging resources, ...

This feature extends the Database Service Events feature implementation that enables you to get notified about health issues with your ...

Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer resources can now be tagged using Oracle Standard tags according to your organizational scheme. By ...

The diagnostics collection and notifications feature enables Oracle Cloud Operations and you to identify, investigate, track, and resolve guest VM ...

You can now have the encryption keys used for the primary and standby databases to be available in the primary ...

With this enhancement, you can now concurrently create or terminate Oracle databases even if the VM cluster is in the ...

You need not mandatorily roll back if applying the Guest VM operating system update fails. A new option, in addition ...

Security maintenance, performed alongside the quarterly maintenance, is executed once a month and includes fixes for vulnerabilities with CVSS scores ...

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

For more ...

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

The event names for Base Database Service have changed.

For more information, see Event Types for Base Database Service ...

The Data Guard has now been enhanced with the following functionalities:

• Select your desired time zone for the ...

In addition to performing minor version updates to the Exadata VM Cluster images, you can update to a new major ...

This feature allows customers to use OCI Console or API/CLI/SDK/Terraform to receive event notifications about health issues with your Oracle ...

You can now upgrade the database that has a Data Guard association. The upgrade options are available in the Console ...

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D): Now allows you to create a database from backup, when the backup ...

Performance Hub now allows users to create and run an ADDM task to analyze current or past performance of the ...

You can now set a time zone other than UTC or the browser-detected time zone while provisioning an Autonomous Exadata ...

Provision a DB Home using a major version and RU version of your choice.

While provisioning, if you opt ...

Provision a DB Home using a major version and RU version of your choice.

While provisioning, if you opt ...

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

Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption key for ...

You can now update a database using the database software images using the Console.

For more information, see Update ...

This feature allows you to use TCPS to connect when registering external databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, in addition to ...

You can now upgrade the operating system and the Oracle Grid Infrastructure using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs. ...

You can get real-time information on the performance of applications running on OCI external databases by enabling stack monitoring for ...

The following services and features are now available in the US Government Cloud with DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization:

In addition to performing minor version updates to the Exadata VM Cluster Images, you can now update to a new ...

IAM database passwords and tokens centralize Autonomous Database user account management in IAM. They improve security and greatly minimize the ...

Database Service Events feature implementation enables you to get notified about health issues with your Oracle Databases or other components ...

Restore a backup taken of an Autonomous Database (ADB) into an existing Autonomous Container Database (ACD) on the same or ...

Operations Insights now allows you to use the Capacity Planning and SQL Warehouse functionality to gain insight into Oracle Databases ...

Multi-VM Cluster supports heterogeneous computing environments in which Autonomous and Non-Autonomous VM clusters can coexist on an Exadata Infrastructure.

The same SID prefix used for the primary database can now also be used for the standby database when creating ...

The Exadata Cloud@Customer Oracle-managed infrastructure maintenance now allows greater control and visibility including:

• Choice of rolling and non-rolling ...

Control Plane Server (CPS) offline diagnostic report assists you in troubleshooting connectivity issues between the CPS and OCI endpoints.

The same SID prefix used for the primary database can now also be used for the standby database when creating ...

Select a Data Guard type, Active Data Guard or Data Guard, based on the Oracle Database software license type you ...

Create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) in Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer systems using the Console and APIs.

For more information, ...

For Exadata Cloud Service databases, you can now choose between Oracle Active Data Guard and regular Oracle Data Guard when ...

You can now scale up data and recovery storage separately for virtual machine DB systems. For instructions on scaling up ...

You can now upgrade Exadata databases that are part of a Data Guard association without having to recreate the Data ...

With Fast-Start Failover (FSFO), the system automatically detects the failure of the primary Autonomous Container Database and then fails over ...

For virtual machine or bare metal DB systems, you can now choose between Oracle Active Data Guard and regular Oracle ...

You can now specify the DB_UNIQUE_NAME value and the Oracle SID prefix when creating a new Oracle Database in Exadata ...

You can now create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) in Exadata Cloud Service using the OCI console and APIs. See ...

You can now view the key version OCID every time you rotate a customer-managed key for your Autonomous Container Database. ...

The infrastructure setup of a Dedicated Autonomous Database has changed with the introduction of the new cloud Autonomous Exadata VM ...

When provisioning a new Oracle Database or a new virtual machine or bare metal DB system, the TDE wallet password ...

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

Operator Access Control has been expanded to provide controls for client virtual machines deployed on Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata ...

You can now specify a custom SCAN listener port for your Exadata cloud VM cluster. See SCAN Listener Port Setting ...

The following services and features are now available in the US Government Cloud with FedRAMP Authorization:

• Autonomous Database ...

You can now use the Console or Database service APIs to convert a non-container database that uses Oracle Database 19c ...

OCI's Databse service has enhanced the capabilities of Database Software Images for patching and creating databases on bare metal and ...

VM Cluster Node Subsetting enables you to allocate a subset of database servers to new and existing VM clusters to ...

Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...

Autonomous Database by default supports Mutual TLS (mTLS) connections. You have the option to configure an Autonomous Database instance to ...

You can now use the Performance Hub tool and view metrics on cloud databases that run on the following systems: ...

A new release for Database Management is now available!

You can now:

• Enable and use Database Management ...

You can now create cross-region Autonomous Data Guard deployments that use your own Vault service encryption keys for the Autonomous ...

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

You can now provision a new bare metal or virtual machine DB systems and databases with Oracle Database 21.3.

Select an existing Database Home or create a new one for the standby while enabling Data Guard association.

For ...

You can choose to specify up to 10 valid email addresses to which Oracle sends maintenance notifications when updates are ...

You can now specify the Data Guard protection mode for Exadata Cloud Service instances and bare metal and virtual machine ...

Validate and inspect the network validation failure report without active involvement from Oracle Cloud Ops in troubleshooting networking configuration issues. ...

Upgrade Oracle Database 19c (Long Term Release) using the Console and the APIs.

For more information, see:

...

Update the operating system image on Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster nodes in an automated manner from the OCI console and ...

Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) on an Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs.

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

Create Autonomous Databases that use less than 1 OCPU by assigning a fractional unit from 0.1 to 0.9. You can ...

Create Autonomous Databases with less than 1 OCPU count using fractional units from 0.1 to 0.9 OCPU and GB sizing ...

PDB management is now available for Database Cloud Service. With this release, you can create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) ...

The Events service now provides "critical" events for DB systems, and database nodes and databases located in DB systems. Critical ...

Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-S) integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption ...

Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Autonomous Data Guard enabled Autonomous Databases on Exadata Cloud@Customer and use customer-managed ...

With elastic storage expansion, you can dynamically increase your storage capacity to meet your growing workload requirements.

Expand the ...

You can now set up network access control lists (ACLs) to allow specific IP addresses or CIDR blocks to access ...

You can now configure Exadata infrastructure patching to take place in a non-rolling fashion across the database nodes. This option ...

ADB-Dedicated maintenance involves patching Exadata Infrastructure (EI) Autonomous VM Cluster, and Autonomous Container Database (ACD).

For more information, see: ...

Oracle Operator Access Control is a compliance audit system that enables you to maintain close management and audit trails of ...

When you enable Oracle Data Guard on an Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can locate the standby database ...

You can now register and manage RAC databases located outside of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) alongside your OCI Oracle Databases ...

You can now provision an Always Free Autonomous Database with the JSON or APEX workload type. See Overview of the ...

The External Database service now offers Operations Insights, providing a 360-degree insight into the resource utilization and capacity of ...

You can choose to specify up to 10 valid email addresses to which Oracle sends maintenance notifications when updates are ...

You can select X8M as a model when provisioning an Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure resource.

Customer-managed keys for Exadata Cloud Service is an encryption key management service that enables you to encrypt your data using ...

Database software images enable you to create a customized Oracle Database software configuration that includes your chosen updates (PSU, RU, ...

You can now clone virtual machine DB systems that use Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). See Cloning a Virtual Machine ...

You can view the maintenance history for a specific Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure. See Checking the Scheduling of ...

The Performance Hub for External Databases feature extends the capability of using Performance Hub to monitor the performance of OCI ...

For non-RAC DB systems, you can now define the IP address of the new DB system during provisioning. This is ...

One-off patching is available for certain resources on dedicated Exadata Infrastructure when customers file a service request with My Oracle ...

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

The Performance Hub user interface has been updated to allow customers to view the Performance Hub data more easily and ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) now offers a way to register, manage, and monitor Oracle Databases that are located outside of ...

Database Management provides comprehensive database performance diagnostics and management capabilities to monitor and manage Oracle Databases located on premises and ...

An access control list (ACL) provides additional protection to your database by allowing only the clients with specific IP addresses ...

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

You can monitor the health, capacity, and performance of your Autonomous Databases with metrics, alarms, and notifications. You can use ...

You can now provision a new bare metal or virtual machine DB system with Oracle Database 21c. For more information ...

You can now schedule a maintenance window for Oracle-managed Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure patching.

For more information, see:

...

You can rotate the security certificates for Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) in an Autonomous ...

\this topic explains the steps to identify and resolve the issues when troubleshooting Exadata Data Guard during the Data Guard ...

You can now upgrade Exadata Cloud Service databases to Oracle Database version 19c using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or ...

While configuring an Always Free Autonomous Database you can now select the version of the database to use. The user ...

You can now perform an in-place database upgrade for bare metal and virtual machine DB systems that use the Oracle ...

Enabling Autonomous Data Guard on an Autonomous Container Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure creates a standby (peer) Autonomous Container Database ...

You can now manage your administrator and TDE wallet passwords for bare metal and virtual machine DB system databases from ...

An access control list (ACL) provides additional protection to your database by allowing only the clients with specific IP addresses ...

You can now create custom Oracle Database software images to use for provisioning Database Homes and and patching databases in ...

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 system shape changes now take place in a rolling fashion across the system nodes, allowing you to ...

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

You can now provision an Exadata Cloud Service instance using the flexible X8M shape. This shape allows you to expand ...

You can now choose to use an existing Database Home when setting up a Data Guard standby database in your ...

You can now upgrade the grid infrastructure (GI) of an Exadata Cloud Service VM cluster using the Console. For more ...

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 on dedicated Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure enables database encryption with customer-managed keys. ...

Dedicated Autonomous Database Service integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption key for autonomous ...

Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...

Maintenance contacts are required for service request based communications for hardware replacement and other maintenance events.

Add a primary ...

Autonomous Databases allow for read-only access and for access restricted only to the ADMIN user or users with administrator privileges. ...

You can now create custom Oracle Database software images to use for provisioning and patching databases in virtual machine and ...

You can now create a clone of a virtual machine DB system that has been created with the "fast provisioning" ...

You can now create a refreshable clone of an Autonomous Database deployed on shared Exadata infrastructure. With a refreshable clone, ...

The ASH Sample Resolution menu gives users the ability to control the sampling of ASH data displayed in the Average ...

The Performance Hub Workload tab now suppots both dedicated Exadata Infrastructure and shared Exadata Infrastructure. For more information, see Performance ...

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data.

Enable a Data Guard association ...

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

Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...

Oracle Autonomous Databases running on shared Exadata infrastructure and using private endpoints are now compatible with Data Safe. For ...

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

Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer Deployment Assistant is an automated installation and configuration tool that enables you to set up your Oracle ...

You can rename an Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure. For more information, see To rename an Autonomous Database on ...

Maintenance quarters are offset forward by one month to February, May, August, and November, with the first maintenance quarter of ...

You can immediately patch Autonomous Container Databases and Exadata infrastructures at any point during the scheduled maintenance cycle.

For ...

You can now view, pre-check, and apply Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database patches by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...

Exadata Cloud@Customer Gen2 uses per-second billing for OCPUs. This means that OCPU usage is billed by the second, with a ...

You can now provision a standby (peer) Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure for data protection and disaster recovery using ...

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. This means that OCPU and storage usage is billed ...

Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure resources now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage period of 48 hours. This replaces hourly billing ...

Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure can now be registered with Data Safe, a unified cloud service control center that ...

You can now perform an in-place update of your Autonomous Database network access configuration to switch to a private endpoint. ...

Exadata DB systems provisioned in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage of 48 hours. This ...

You can now add tags to Database Homes in an Exadata DB system. See Resource Tags for information on tagging ...

Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer combines the benefits of a self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database management system and ...

You can now add, update, and remove tags applied to a shared Database Home resource.

For more information, see: ...

You can now create a point-in-time copy of a database in a virtual machine or bare metal DB system. For ...

You can now create a database from the lastest archived redo log backup of databases that use virtual machine or ...

Exadata Cloud@Customer is considered to be in a "disconnected" mode when there is a loss of connectivity with the Database ...

Slice Exadata resources into multiple virtual machines. Define up to 8 multiple virtual machines (VM) clusters on an Oracle Exadata ...

The Performance Hub database analysis tool now offers a time zone selector, allowing you to view Performance Hub reports in ...

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

Two additional Autonomous Database events are now available:

• Upgrade Begin
• Upgrade End

These events are ...

Before you create the database, decide the character set that you want to use.

After a database is created, ...

The default time zone for the Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure is UTC. The time is displayed in the UTC format ...

You can now update the license type of your DB system from License Included to Bring Your Own License (BYOL), ...

Performance Hub now includes a new Workload tab that displays four sets of graphically displayed data to help users monitor ...

Oracle automatically upgrades your instance to the latest version of Oracle Database after notifying you in advance. However, you can ...

You can now patch an Exadata DB system's grid infrastructure and databases by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, API, ...

You can now provision a full-rack Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. For more information on using dedicated ...

You can now create a database in an Exadata DB system by using a backup. For more information, see To ...

You can now schedule a maintenance window for Oracle-managed Exadata infrastructure patching. For more information, see Maintaining an Exadata DB ...

Autonomous Databases on shared Exadata infrastructure can now be upgraded to Oracle Database 19c. For more information, see To upgrade ...

Autononomous Databases using shared Exadata infrastructure now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage of 60 seconds. This replaces hourly ...

You can configure Oracle Data Guard on primary and standby databases that are in different regions. This applies to bare ...

You can now restart an Autonomous Database that uses shared Exadata infrastructure by clicking a single button in the console, ...

Use a single Oracle Home for multiple databases. Besides saving space, sharing an Oracle Database Home with multiple databases provides ...

You can now create and delete serial console connections to your bare metal or virtual machine DB system in the ...

Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...

You can now manually reboot a virtual machine DB system node that has scheduled maintenance. Doing so allows you to ...

You can create full and metadata clones from an Autonomous Database on a dedicated Exatada Infrastructure instance into different container ...

Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure now have the ability to automatically scale OCPU cores. The auto scaling feature allows ...

For Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now use the Monitoring service to view database metrics. For more ...

Exadata and Autonomous Database customers can use a pay-as-you-go option for Exadata infrastructure instances. Use instances only as long as ...

When you provision a bare metal or virtual machine DB system, you can now select a time zone other than ...

When patching a virtual machine or bare metal DB system, the Console now displays the latest DB system patch and ...

You can change the shape of a virtual machine DB system to scale up the OCPUs for increased performance, or ...

For Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now restart a database with a single click on the Console, ...

For Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now provision X8 Exadata hardware shapes. Quarter and half racks available. ...

For Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure, you can now provision a half rack Exadata infrastructure instance.

For more ...

For Autonomous Databases using shared Exadata infrastructure, you can now provision the database with a private network endpoint within your ...

You can now provision a virtual machine DB system with Oracle 20c preview version software to do development and application ...

Depending on the region where you provision or clone your database, Autonomous Database supports one or more Oracle Database versions. ...

You can now write compartment quota policies to control the consumption of storage and CPU resources for your Autonomous Databases ...

You can now use different shapes within the same shape type for the primary and the standby databases in a ...

You can now clone an Autonomous Database using a backup as your source. For more information, see Cloning an Autonomous ...

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

You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, API, or CLI to create and manage shared Oracle Database Homes ...

You can now monitor long-running operations using work requests for bare metal, VM, and Exadata DB systems. See Work Requests ...

You can now set the scheduling of your container database maintenance updates for Autonomous Database with dedicated Exadata infrastructure. See ...

You can now run Oracle Database 19c on bare metal DB systems. For more information, see Supported Database Editions and ...

You can now create Exadata DB systems on X8 hardware. For system configuration details, see Exadata DB Systems.

Autonomous Databases with serverless deployment now display scheduling details for the next maintenance run in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. ...

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

You can now add VCNs to your Autonomous Database's Access Control List (ACL). This applies to serverless deployments only. You ...

Autonomous Database users can now quickly access the following database tools from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console: SQL Developer Web, ...

To handle DNS resolution for bare metal and 1-node virtual machine DB systems, you can now use a custom DNS ...

For Autonomous Databases with serverless deployment, you now have the choice of downloading either a single database instance wallet or ...

For 1-node virtual machine DB systems, there is now a fast provisioning option that allows you to create your DB ...

Oracle's Performance Hub tool for database performance analysis and tuning is now available for Autonomous Databases with dedicated deployment. See ...

You can now create a full clone or a metadata-only clone of an Autonomous Database with dedicated deployment. See Cloning ...

You can now provision an Autonomous Data Warehouse using the dedicated deployment option, which gives you exclusive use of the ...

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), an optional Networking feature available with dedicated deployment, act as a virtual firewall for your Autonomous ...

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

You can now run Oracle Database 19c on virtual machine DB systems. For more information, see Supported Database Editions and ...

The Database service now features more intuitive workflows for creating and managing bare metal, virtual machine, and Exadata DB system ...

You can now deploy Autonomous Transaction Processing databases on dedicated Exadata infrastructure. For more information, see Overview of Autonomous Transaction ...

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

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

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

You can now run Oracle Database 19c on Exadata DB systems. For more information, see Supported Database Edition and Versions ...

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

If you are enabling automatic backups for a bare metal or virtual machine database, you can now choose one of ...

You can now create an access control list (ACL) for your Autonomous Database after you provision it by using the ...

You can now change your license type for your Autonomous Database after you provision it by using the Oracle Cloud ...

You can now clone an Autonomous Database by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or the API. For information and ...

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

You can now manage how multiple databases share the I/O resources of an Oracle Exadata DB system. See Managing Exadata ...

In the Console, Autonomous Transaction Processing databases and Autonomous Data Warehouse databases now appear in a common list of Autonomous ...

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

You can now obtain connection strings for the administration service of a CDB or 11g database of a bare metal ...

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

You can now use the console or the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API to enable Data Guard for a virtual machine ...

You can now configure a sparse disk group when you provision an Exadata DB system. The sparse disk enables you ...

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

You can migrate an on-premises database to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by creating a standalone backup of your on-premises database in ...

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

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

You can now run Oracle Database 18.0.0.0 on Exadata DB systems.

You can now use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or API to add a database to an existing Exadata DB ...

Exadata DB systems are now available on X7. For more information, see Exadata DB Systems.

Note that you ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Autonomous Data Warehouse gives you your own fully managed, pre-configured data warehousing environment, without the need to ...

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

The April 2018 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.

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

You can now apply tags to your DB systems and databases. See Overview of Tags.

The January 2018 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.

Bare metal and virtual machine DB systems are now available on X7. For more information, see Bare Metal and Virtual ...

You can now run Oracle Database 18.1.0.0 on bare metal and virtual machine DB Systems.

You can now patch virtual machine DB systems by using the Console or the API. For more information, see Patching ...

The October 2017 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.

The August 2017 patch is now available. For more information, see Patching a DB System.

The BM.RACLocalStorage1.72 shape now provides 64 TB of raw storage.

You can now use the Console or the API to manage backing up and restoring a Virtual Machine DB System ...

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

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

You can now use the Console or the API to manage backups to Oracle Cloud InfrastructureObject Storage. For more information, ...

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

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database service is now available on virtual machines. For more information, see Virtual Machine DB Systems. ...

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

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

You can now run Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 on all DB Systems.

You can now launch Exadata DB Systems. For more information, see Exadata DB Systems.

You can now launch 2-node Real Application Clusters (RAC) DB Systems. For more information, see Bare Metal and Virtual Machine ...

The odacli CLI is now the dbcli CLI. For more information, see Oracle Database CLI Reference.

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

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

The new Database service is now available. You can buy the service at the Oracle Store.