Database: Base Database

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

For more information, ...

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 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 ...

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

For more information, see About Pluggable Databases.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

• Specify whether ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

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.

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

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) ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 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.

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

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

You can optionally specify a 2-hour scheduling window for your database during which the automatic backup process will begin for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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.