DATABASE DESIGN

Top Six Oracle GoldenGate Announcements at Cloud World 2022 Innovative new capabilities, significant cost savings and a major leap forward in simplicity and usability for all GoldenGate developers! Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/post/goldengate-announcements-at-cloud-world-2022

To Data Lake or Not to Data Lake For enterprise data, analytics and machine learning can be done simpler, faster, and at less total cost in an Oracle Database. The Oracle Database-centric Data Lab is a unique embedded platform for doing analytics within your transaction systems or data warehouses. Whether your Oracle Database is in the cloud or in your data center, take advantage of these embedded and free capabilities today! Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/bigdata/post/to-data-lake-or-not-to-data-lake

Fourth Quarterly update on Oracle Graph (2022) Oracle Graph Server and Client version 22.4 has been released and contains a number of feature updates. In this release of Oracle Graph Server and Client, we have made updates that align PGQL with the SQL/PGQ standard. With these updates, anyone familiar with SQL can easily write more intricate graph queries than ever before. Additionally, Graph Server (PGX) now supports a graph loading progress reporting API, subgraph loading enhancements, and synchronization for published graphs. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/undefined/post/fourth-quarterly-update-on-oracle-graph-2022

Multiple VM Cluster Support & VM Cluster Node Subsetting now available on ExaDB-D With Multiple VM Clusters (Multi-VM) support and VM Cluster Node Subsetting capability, you can now create multiple VM Clusters on a single Exadata Infrastructure in ExaDB-D and have the flexibility to choose specific DB Servers within the infrastructure to host VMs from the cluster. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/multiple-vm-cluster-support-vm-cluster-node-subsetting-now-available-on-exadb-d

Essential reading: Explaining modern data management (Part 2) Data management, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence are all hot topics. Oracle is a leading company in data management with over 4 decades of experience. Let's step back together and learn about the latest concepts, architectures and innovations provided by Oracle to turn your data into actions. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/explaining-modern-data-mgmt-pt-2

User Assistance Enhancements in 2022: Autonomous Database On Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure In this blog, Anjani Pothula, User Assistance Lead for Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, tries to glimpse UA implementations and updates made through 2022. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/2022-in-review-user-assistance-for-autonomous-database-on-dedicated-exadata-infrastructure

How to Restrict Root Access to VMs with Exadata Database Service How to provide more fine-grained access control to various resources in the service. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/how-to-restrict-root-access-to-vms-with-exadata-database-service

Simplify Your Cloud Operations: Enhanced Maintenance Controls for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure In this blog, we will explore and provide a comprehensive understanding of the enhanced infrastructure maintenance controls for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure that provide greater visibility of maintenance actions, timings, and the ability to perform additional actions before the updates on the nodes. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/enhanced-maintenance-controls-for-exadb-d

Oracle Sauce Video’s Migration Story: Real-time migration of MongoDB Atlas to Autonomous JSON Database Sauce Video relies on an ecosystem of OCI Services, including Autonomous JSON Database, to manage its customer-facing operations. This blog describes how they migrated their MongoDB-based applications to Oracle Autonomous JSON Database and gained operational simplicity at scale. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/saucevideo-migration-mongodb-to-autonomous-json-database

Snapshot standby databases on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure and Exadata Cloud@Customer Announcement blog for snapshot standby feature on ADB-D and ADB-C@C Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/snapshot-standby-databases-on-autonomous-database-on-dedicated-exadata-infrastructure-and-exadata-cloudcustomer

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration 21.4 Oracle Zero Downtime Migration 21.4 Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/maa/post/oracle-zero-downtime-migration-214

US Treasury Department Affirms What Leading Exadata Cloud@Customer Financial Services Customers Already Know! The US Department of the Treasury published a paper titled “The Financial Services Sector’s Adoption of Cloud Services.” In that paper they raised some potential concerns with Banks embracing the Cloud. It raises some valid points, but mostly it re-affirms what users of Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer already know: Cloud@Customer is a better model than pure cloud for addressing the Cloud requirements of Financial Services companies. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/us-treasury-affirms-financial-services-customers

Long-Term Backups (up to 10 years) on Autonomous Dedicated! Blog that describes Long-Term backups on Autonomous Dedicated Infrastructure and Exadata Cloud@Customer Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/long-term-backups-on-autonomous-dedicated

Introducing Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is a new, free offering of the industry-leading Oracle Database that enterprises worldwide rely on every day. It can be downloaded straight from the Internet with no oracle.com user account or license click-through requirements, enabling simple and fast access to the world’s only converged database that supports all data models and workload types. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-database-23c-free

Operational Property Graphs in Oracle Database 23c Free - Developer Release There are many implicit and explicit connections in data that can reveal new insights into your data. Traversing these connections in data usually requires complex recursive queries or lengthy joins. In Oracle Database 23c Free - Developer Release, the GRAPH_TABLE function and MATCH clause of the new SQL:2023 standard enable you to write simple SQL queries to follow connections in data. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/undefined/post/operational-property-graphs-in-oracle-database-23c-free-developer-release

Key benefits of JSON Relational Duality: Experience it today using "Oracle Database 23c Free--Developer Release" Blog on Oracle Database 23c feature highlighting key benefits and providing links to tutorials and assets Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/key-benefits-of-json-relational-duality-experience-it-today-using-oracle-database-23c-free-developer-release

Leading Industry Analysts Comment on Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release Oracle has just made Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release available to the developer community for early access. Read leading industry analysts' comments on the release. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-database-23c-free-analyst-reactions

Unlimited data-driven collaboration with Data Sharing of Oracle Autonomous Database This blog post give an insight on how to share and consume data with Autonomous Database, using modern technologies and protocols Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/share-data-with-oracle-autonomous-database-data-sharing

Rethink your data lake with Autonomous Data Warehouse Choose your data lake architecture based on your needs, not cost: Store all of your data in #AutonomousDataWarehouse, object stores, or both. You can, thanks to a 75% reduction in #AutonomousDataWarehouse #Exadata storage costs. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/rethink-your-data-lake-with-autonomous-data-warehouse

Latest Autonomous Data Warehouse innovations breaking through data management boundaries Access any data regardless of location, use built-in data integration, share data faster and easier, and take advantage of the #AutonomousDataWarehouse Exadata storage’s 20x performance over object storage with a 75% reduction in storage costs. Read: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/latest-autonomous-data-warehouse-innovations-may-2023