What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless

Here’s a summary of the noteworthy Oracle Autonomous Database additions and enhancements.

See Previous Feature Announcements for 2024 announcements and older announcements.

February 2025

Feature Description

Update Cloud Links Registrations

With Cloud Links a data owner registers a table or view for remote access for a selected audience as defined by the data owner, and the data is then accessible to those with access granted at registration time. After you register a data set you can update data set attributes.

See Update Data Set Registration Attributes for more information.

Database User Password Warning Event: DatabaseUserPasswordWarning

The database user password warning event provides a message that the Autonomous Database user password is expiring within the specified grace period (default 30 days) or has already expired.

See Critical Events on Autonomous Database for more information.

January 2025

Feature Description

Documentation Addition: Create and Use Custom Metrics

You can create custom metrics to collect, publish, and analyze metrics. A custom metric collects specified data from your Autonomous Database instance and publishes the data to the OCI Monitoring service using a REST API provided by the OCI SDK.

See Use Custom Metrics on Autonomous Database for more information.

Disconnect a Peer Database

You can disconnect an Autonomous Data Guard standby or a Backup-Based Disaster Recovery peer. When you disconnect a cross-region peer, the database is permanently disassociated from the Primary database. This converts the database from a peer database to a standalone database.

See Disconnect a Peer Database for more information.

Change Patch Level After Provisioning

When you provision or clone an Autonomous Database instance you can select a patch level to apply to upcoming patches. You can also change the patch level after an Autonomous Database instance is provisioned. There are two patch level options: Regular and Early.

See Set the Patch Level for more information.

Service Name Mapping for Cloud Links Consumers

You can set the service name mapping to use when Cloud Links consumers access data from a data set owner.

See Set Database Service Name Mapping for Cloud Links Consumers for more information.

External Tables with ORC, Parquet, and Avro Provide an Option to Set Size of String Columns

When you access ORC, Parquet, or Avro data stored in object store using external tables, you can either automatically or explicitly set the maximum size of text columns. By default the text column size is set based on the value of MAX_STRING_SIZE.

See Query External Data with ORC, Parquet, or Avro Source Files and Explicitly Set the Text Column Size for more information.

Invoke Google Cloud Platform Cloud Run Functions

You can invoke Google Cloud Platform Cloud Run functions as SQL functions.

See Steps to Invoke Google Cloud Run Functions as SQL Functions for more information.