DATABASE DESIGN

You Asked, We Listened. It's Here - Dark Mode for Atlas is Now Available in Public Preview Read: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/dark-mode-for-atlas-now-available-public-preview

Oracle Database Appliance X10 – Much More Powerful Database-Optimized Entry-Level Engineered Systems We are excited to announce the next generation Oracle Database Appliance X10. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/oda/post/oracle-database-appliance-x10

Achieve data residency, availability, and scale with Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database Store and manage large volumes of data with remarkable performance and reliability and design data application architectures that address critical enterprise use cases. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/globally-distributed-autonomous-database

How to Achieve up to 87% Compute Cost Savings with Elastic Resource Pools on Autonomous Database Learn how you can achieve up to 87% compute cost savings with the elastic resource pools on Autonomous Database. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/elastic-resource-pools-autonomous-database

Introducing Autonomous Database Free Container Image Learn how to take advantage of Autonomous Database free container image for your development and test use cases. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/autonomous-database-free-container-image

Autonomous Database speaks “human” Meet Autonomous Database Select AI – the simplified way for your users to get answers about your business. They can use their natural language to query data and gain insights, without the need to understand where and how your data is stored. It’s that simple. Discover how Select AI simplifies the use of natural language to query your data. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/autonomous-database-speaks-human

Latest Autonomous Database Innovation Announcements at Oracle CloudWorld Autonomous Database continues to simplify customer innovations and reduce operational costs with several new feature announcements: 1) with Select AI, Autonomous Database now speaks “human”, letting you query your data using natural language, 2) developers have a new free and offline app dev option with Autonomous Database Free Container Image and 3) organizations save operational costs by consolidating compute resources in Elastic Resource Pools. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/latest-autonomous-database-innovation-announcements-at-oracle-cloudworld

Introducing Oracle Database 23c Free Oracle Database 23c Free, a free offering of the industry-leading Oracle Database that enterprises rely on every day, is now generally available. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/database-23c-free-ga

Oracle Database 23c: The Next Long Term Support Release We are pleased to announce that the new version of the world’s most powerful database, Oracle Database 23c, is now Generally Available on OCI Oracle Base Database Service. We’ve also taken the opportunity to update the popular Oracle Database Free version, available for download here. Releases for Oracle Database On-premises, Exadata, Exadata Database Service, Exadata Cloud at Customer (ExaC@C), and Autonomous Database (ADB) will follow later. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-database-23c-the-next-long-term-support-release

Leading Industry Analysts Comment on the Database Announcement at Oracle CloudWorld 2023 During CloudWorld 2023, Oracle announced its plans to add semantic search capabilities using AI vectors to Oracle Database 23c. The collection of features, called AI Vector Search, includes a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators. In addition, the announcement includes the latest updates to Oracle Database services and products. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/leading-industry-analysts-comment-on-ocw2023-database-announcement

Introducing Oracle True Cache : In-memory, consistent, and automatically managed SQL and key-value (object) cache Oracle True Cache is an in-memory, consistent, and automatically managed cache for Oracle Database. It is a cutting-edge caching solution designed to tackle the challenges faced by modern business applications. This blog discusses the features and capabilities of Oracle True Cache and how it empowers organizations to optimize performance, mitigate data staleness, and efficiently manage cached data Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/introducing-oracle-true-cache

Oracle and Microsoft expand partnership to deliver Oracle database services in Azure Oracle is committed to provide the easiest path for customers to migrate their mission critical workloads, many of which have long been powered by Oracle databases. Read more about how Oracle Database@Azure provides customers more flexibility and choice with Oracle database services running on OCI, colocated in Microsoft Azure data centers for the highest levels of Oracle Database performance, scale, security, and availability, on par with what we offer in OCI. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/oracle-microsoft-deliver-oracle-database-at-azure

Sagas Are Great. What’s the Problem? Sagas are promoted as a solution to ensuring data consistency across microservices. The solution sounds simple and conceptually it is. It's in the details where things get difficult. This post looks at sagas in a bit more detail and shows some of the problems that can be encountered. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/sagas-are-great-whats-the-problem

Oracle Graph Server REST API The Oracle Graph offering includes the Graph Server REST API, a gateway to utilize the capabilities of Oracle Graph from any application with a simple REST call. This API allows developers to interact with their graphs, enabling them to create graphs, run queries, and derive actionable information from their data Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-graph-server-rest-api

Database In-Memory now supported on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure! Blog on Database In-Memory support on Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer and Dedicated Infrastructure Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/database-inmemory-now-supported-on-autonomous-database-on-dedicated-exadata-infrastructure

August edition of newsletter for Autonomous Database Serverless We are continually adding new features to Autonomous Database Serverless. Over the LAST 12 MONTHS, over 200 NEW FEATURES have been added, and the latest updates include the following... Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/august-edition-of-newsletter-for-autonomous-database-serverless

Introducing the Oracle Database Error Help Portal The Oracle Database Error Help Portal documents all Oracle Database errors, their Causes and the recommended Action for users. It is available under https://docs.oracle.com/error-help/db/ Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/error-help-portal

Oracle DatabaseWorld at CloudWorld 2023 Announcing Oracle DatabaseWorld at CloudWorld 2023 - the place for DatabaseWorld fans to get up-to-speed with the latest Oracle database technology and try it hands on. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-databaseworld-at-oracle-cloudworld-2023

July edition of newsletter for Autonomous Database Serverless We are continually adding new features to Autonomous Database Serverless. Over the LAST 12 MONTHS, over 200 NEW FEATURES have been added, and the latest updates include the following: Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/july-edition-of-newsletter-for-autonomous-database-serverless

Oracle Announces Oracle Database for Arm Architectures in the Cloud & On-Premises Oracle today announced that Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition, the current long-term support release of Oracle Database, is now certified and available on the popular Arm architecture for both cloud and on-premises deployments. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/announcing-oracle-database-19c-support-for-arm