Metric Extension Templates in Database Management
OCI Database Management added Metric Extension Templates for creating custom performance metrics across supported database types and publishing them to OCI Monitoring.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available, offering omni-modal processing for text, image, and video. New features include standalone video upscaling, extended generation durations, and reference-guided video editing.
Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Gemini Enterprise: Prepaid credits for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions and usage above quota
Prepaid credits are now generally available for self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, allowing users to pay for Gemini Enterprise usage without an invoiced billing account.
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been deprecated. Users should now use Knowledge Catalog for data discovery, profiling, and governance tasks.
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now supported in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
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Privilege Analysis in Database Management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure added a Privilege Analysis tab to Database Management, enabling database administrators to analyze database privilege usage and schedule analysis policies.
Monitor GoldenGate Deployments in Database Management
OCI Database Management now supports monitoring GoldenGate deployments, displaying process status, lag, resource utilization, and open alarms on the High Availability fleet summary page.
Job Templates in Database Management
OCI Database Management introduced job templates, allowing administrators to create SQL jobs for Managed Databases and Database Groups using predefined or user-created templates.
Unified Onboarding for Database Management and Ops Insights
OCI introduced a unified console workflow to enable and configure Database Management and Ops Insights services together for supported databases and Exadata infrastructure.
AWR Snapshot Collection and Bring Your Own Warehouse
OCI Ops Insights added AWR Snapshot Collection for performance analysis and Bring Your Own Warehouse integration, enabling database performance data retention up to 25 months.
SQL Monitoring Reports in SQL Insights
OCI Ops Insights added direct access to SQL Monitoring reports from Fleet, Database, and SQL analysis views, including downloadable HTML Active Reports.
Support for pull-through cache repositories and the top-level capability
OCI Container Registry added pull-through cache repositories for caching images across OCI regions and top-level repository capabilities for organizing image paths.
Realtime Text to Speech
OCI Speech added support for real-time text-to-speech generation via a WebSocket API, enabling incremental text streaming and immediate audio output.