Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

New Feature Announcements

Announcements for the noteworthy changes made to Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure.

February 2025

Feature Description
NFS space utilization With Autonomous Database deployments on Exadata Cloud@Customer, if the backup destination type is NFS, then you can view the NFS space utilization from the ACD details page. The current NFS space utilization is displayed as a percentage along with a status icon.

See View NFS Space Utilization for more details.

Change the backup destination type of an Autonomous Container database With Autonomous Database deployments on Exadata Cloud@Customer, you can change the backup destination type for an Autonomous Container Database which has the automatic backup enabled.

See Edit Autonomous Container Database Backup Settings for more details.

Restore Database to a specific SCN On Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, you can restore the database to a specific System Change Number (SCN).

See Restore and Recover Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure for more details.

Database Clone from the latest backup On Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, when you clone the database from a backup, you can choose the Backup clone type as Latest backup timestamp. With this backup clone type, you can clone the database from the most recent backup data that is available.

See Clone Autonomous database from backup for more details.

Oracle Maintained Pipelines

Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure provides built-in pipelines that enable you to export the database audit logs or Oracle APEX workspace activity log to OCI Object Storage in JSON format. These pipelines are preconfigured and can be started by the ADMIN user.

See Oracle Maintained Pipelines for more information.

January 2025

Feature Description
Doc update: Vulnerability Assessment and Security Testing Policies

We have updated the Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure documentation with details about:

  • Vulnerability scans and patching that Autonomous Database frequently performs using commercial vulnerability scanning tools.
  • Security testing policies governing activities such as penetration testing and vulnerability scanning that Oracle customers can perform against their Autonomous Database.

See Vulnerability Scans and Patching and Oracle Cloud Security Testing Policy for complete details.

Support for DELETE_OPERATION procedure in DBMS_CLOUD package. On Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, you can use DBMS_CLOUD.DELETE_OPERATION procedure to clear the data load entries for the specified operation ID logged in the user_load_operations or dba_load_operations tables in your schema.
X11M systems available for Autonomous Database on Oracle Public Cloud and Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer deployments.

When you create Autonomous Database deployments on Oracle Public Cloud or Exadata Cloud@Customer, you can deploy to X11M Exadata Database Machine systems.

For details about the capacities and characteristics of the X11M systems supported by the Autonomous Database, see Exadata X11M Systems.