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You can now create custom Oracle Database software images to use for provisioning Database Homes and and patching databases in …
An access control list (ACL) provides additional protection to your database by allowing only the clients with specific IP addresses …
Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises.
Oracle …
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 upgrade the grid infrastructure (GI) of an Exadata Cloud Service VM cluster using the Console. For more …
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 …
Enabling Autonomous Data Guard on an Autonomous Container Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure creates a standby (peer) Autonomous Container Database …
Dedicated Autonomous Database Service integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption key for autonomous …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault service integration with Autonomous Databases on dedicated Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure enables database encryption with customer-managed keys.
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 maintenance …
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 …
Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data.
Enable a Data Guard association between …
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 …
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 now view, pre-check, and apply Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database patches by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure …
You can immediately patch Autonomous Container Databases and Exadata infrastructures at any point during the scheduled maintenance cycle.
For more …
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 by …
Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure resources now use per-second billing, with a minimum usage period of 48 hours. This replaces hourly billing …
You can now perform an in-place update of your Autonomous Database network access configuration to switch to a private endpoint. …
Autonomous Databases using dedicated Exadata infrastructure can now be registered with Data Safe, a unified cloud service control center that is …
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 …
You can now add, update, and remove tags applied to a shared Database Home resource.
For more information, see:
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 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 …
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 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 procedures to …
Two additional Autonomous Database events are now available:
These events are produced when you upgrade the …
The default time zone for the Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure is UTC. The time is displayed in the UTC format …
Before you create the database, decide the character set that you want to use.
After a database is created, changing …