We recently released an update for Oracle Database 23ai, current was 23.4, but is now 23.5. Customers running in OCI or via Exadata or Oracle Database Appliance can use it now, but it’s also available for Windows & Linux users, for free!
Items of note:
- Docs – new features
- BINARY Vector Dimension Format
- JSON Collections
- bug fixes!
- We also updated the FREE release
- …including for WINDOWS
- Official Container & Gerald’s Slim Containers (smallest possible image size)
- VirtualBox Appliance
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Easier landing for new APEX developers
Yes, ORDS and APEX are both installed and ready for you as soon as you start the image, but Steve M asked, couldn’t we make this even easier?
So now we include a WORKSPACE and apex credentials for the developer and admin users, out of the box. And we made it super easy to find this stuff. We print it both to the terminal AND the getting started HTML pages we pop to your browser.
APEX Application Information
Note that these links should work from BOTH your host machine, so my Mac Mini, OR from the actual VirtualBox Linux Desktop.
We make that happen by creating a port forward to and from port 8080.
To develop an APEX app against the HR schema, visit http://localhost:8080/ords/apex
Workspace: HR_DEV
Credentials: HR_ADMIN / oracle
Follow Administration link to sign in to Administration Services with
credentials: ADMIN / oracle
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2 Comments
Hello Jeff,
The container here is still for 23.4
https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/ocr/ba/database/free
If it’s not updated already it will be soon otherwise use Gerald’s, it’s much faster.