Oracle 23ai

New mandatory unified audit policy on 19.26

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This feature was just backported from Oracle 23ai. The new ORA$MANDATORY audit policy was added with the Oracle 19.26 RU. This policy is not visible at UNIFIED_AUDIT_POLICIES or AUDIT_UNIFIED_ENABLED_POLICIES.

After patching the database to 19.26, then you see entries on UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL:

SYS@CDB2.CDB$ROOT> select EVENT_TIMESTMAP, SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE_USED, ACTION_NAME 
from UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL 
where UNIFIED_AUDIT_POLICIES='ORA$MANDATORY' 
order by EVENT_TIMESTMAP;

                  EVENT_TIMESTAMP     SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE_USED       ACTION_NAME
_________________________________ _________________________ _________________
02-FEB-2025 21:54:56.192982000    SYSDBA                    LOGON
02-FEB-2025 21:54:56.216549000    SYSDBA                    SELECT
02-FEB-2025 21:55:00.381577000    SYSDBA, ALTER DATABASE    ALTER DATABASE
02-FEB-2025 21:55:00.393882000    SYSDBA                    LOGOFF
...

The actions that are audited by ORA$MANDATORY policy are described on Oracle 23ai documentation.

What I find interesting, is that the “ALTER DATABASE MOUNT” during startup is audited, so we can have a good history of database startups.

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Oracle postpones release of 23ai on-premises to 2H CY2024

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Oracle just updated the Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1) and changed the release date of database version 23ai on-premises to next half-year. Lets see how many months and bug fixing that means. 🙂

Update on 20.06.2024 – “Added new release dates for Oracle Autonomous Database – Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, ODA, Exadata and Linux-x86 64”