23c for Developers is HERE

23c is HERE and for the first time, Oracle is delivering before anything else, a free developers version. Truth be told this post is simply so that I can easily refer back to it for the important links which I’ll list below.  For all the official information, please refer to the official blog post: https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-database-23c-free

The landing page for the product is https://www.oracle.com/database/free/ and you get our usual support for the free release via our new APEX-driven forums: https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/domain/dev-community/category/oracle-database-free

You can download the RPM from the download page: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/free-downloads.html

or if Docker is more your thing then: 

docker pull container-registry.oracle.com/database/free

To go alongside the new version, we have a freshly updated version of the docs: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/23/index.html

and in particular of course:

• New Features Guide https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/23/nfcoa/introduction.html
• Installation Guide: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/23/xeinl/index.html

To kick start your learning of 23c, I encourage you to poke around the documentation and the product for these 23 new awesome features

1. JSON Relational Duality
2. JSON Schema
3. Operational Property Graph
4. OKafka
5. TxEventQ Propagation for Microservices Transactions
6. Prometheus/Grafana for TxEventQ Monitoring
7. In-Database JavaScript
8. Annotations
9. SQL (Data Usage) Domains
10. Joins in UPDATE/DELETE
11. GROUP BY Alias or Position
12. UPDATE RETURNING clause
13. SELECT without FROM DUAL
14. Table VALUES Constructor
15. DROP / CREATE IF [NOT] EXISTS
16. Boolean Data Type
17. Wider Tables (4000+ Columns Per Table)
18. Lock-Free Reservation (or Escrow Locking).
19. Database Driver API Enhancements
20. DEVELOPER role
21. Schema level privileges
22. TLS 1.3 Support
23. Microsoft Azure AD Integration

23c is here and the future for developers looks awesome!

Enjoy!

Note:

Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is the first release of the next-generation Oracle Database, allowing developers a head-start on building applications with innovative 23c features that simplify development of modern data-driven apps. The entire  feature set of Oracle Database 23c is planned to be generally available within the next 12 months.