New Oracle Database Release Model Eleanor Meritt Vice President Product Development October 2, 2017

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New Release Model Highlights This is a Section Header with Picture slide ideal for including a picture with a brief title and optional subtitle. This slide can also be used as a Q and A slide. To customize this slide with your own picture: Right-click the slide area and choose Format Background from the pop-up menu. From the Fill menu, click Picture and texture fill. Under Insert from: click File. Locate your new picture and click Insert. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on PC Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Reuse Slides. Click Browse in the Reuse Slides panel and select Browse Files. Double-click the PowerPoint presentation that contains the background you wish to copy. Check Keep Source Formatting and click the slide that contains the background you want. Click the left-hand slide preview to which you wish to apply the new master layout. Apply New Layout (Important): Right-click any selected slide, point to Layout, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Delete any unwanted slides or duplicates. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on Mac Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Insert Slides from Other Presentation… Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the background you wish to copy. Double-click or press Insert. This prompts the Slide Finder dialogue box. Make sure Keep design of original slides is unchecked and click the slide(s) that contains the background you want. Hold Shift key to select multiple slides. Apply New Layout (Important): Click Layout from the Home tab's Slides group, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery.

New Release Model: Goals Agility Quality

New Releases Release Updates Release Update Revisions New Release Model: Highlights New Releases Yearly Release Updates Quarterly Release Update Revisions Agile Delivery

New Release Model Details This is a Section Header with Picture slide ideal for including a picture with a brief title and optional subtitle. This slide can also be used as a Q and A slide. To customize this slide with your own picture: Right-click the slide area and choose Format Background from the pop-up menu. From the Fill menu, click Picture and texture fill. Under Insert from: click File. Locate your new picture and click Insert. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on PC Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Reuse Slides. Click Browse in the Reuse Slides panel and select Browse Files. Double-click the PowerPoint presentation that contains the background you wish to copy. Check Keep Source Formatting and click the slide that contains the background you want. Click the left-hand slide preview to which you wish to apply the new master layout. Apply New Layout (Important): Right-click any selected slide, point to Layout, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Delete any unwanted slides or duplicates. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on Mac Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Insert Slides from Other Presentation… Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the background you wish to copy. Double-click or press Insert. This prompts the Slide Finder dialogue box. Make sure Keep design of original slides is unchecked and click the slide(s) that contains the background you want. Hold Shift key to select multiple slides. Apply New Layout (Important): Click Layout from the Home tab's Slides group, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery.

Performance Improvements Features Performance Improvements New Releases Yearly Bug Fixes Min Downtime Upgrade Fix Support up to 8 years

Release Updates Quarterly Critical Fixes Security Fixes Zero Downtime Install Confidential – Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

Associated with an RU for up to 6 mths Release Update Revisions Agile Delivery Security Fixes Delivered on at least a quarterly basis to extend the life of a given RU for 6 months. Fix regressions and security vulnerabilities. Content is small and is a good option if you choose to be more risk averse. Wait a quarter or two for possible issues with RU to be discovered and fixed. But get the latest security fixes at the same time as the RU. ZDT with RAC & DG Regression Fixes Zero Downtime Install d

Release Update and Release Update Revision Contents Replaces BPs SPUs with one-off regression fixes Benefit over predecessor Combines the various BPs (DB, Exadata, E-business, Fusion Apps, SAP) Extend RU lifetime. Stay current on security and regression content Cadence Quarterly Minimum quarterly or as needed Switch between RU and RUR Proactive functional fixes Security fixes Regression fixes Optimizer plan changes (off by default) Functional enhancements (minor) Emergency one-offs A

Other Release Update (RU) Incremental Drops Oracle will release monthly incremental drops for an RU to accelerate stabilization Emergency Off Cycle Patches (one-off patches) Still available with new release model Windows patching mode does not change 12.2.0.1 switched to RUs and RURs instead of PSUs and BPs starting July 2017. The following are the full names for the 12.2.0.1 RU / RURs Database Release Update 12.2.0.1<build-date> Database July 2017 Release Update Revision 12.2.0.1.<build-date> RU incremental drops will be uploaded to MOS monthly during the early part of a release lifetime. These are a great option to take if you want to avoid or at least reduce one-offs. All incremental drop content will be included in the next quarterly RU. Version takes that of the next RU and a timestamp will be included in the OUI abstract and track bug to distinguish one drop from another on an RU series. One-offs not going away but please stay away from them as far as possible. Cloud envs do not tolerate one-offs and RU content will be more comprehensive than PSU’s in the past. Oracle Confidential – Internal

New Release Version Numbering This is a Section Header with Picture slide ideal for including a picture with a brief title and optional subtitle. This slide can also be used as a Q and A slide. To customize this slide with your own picture: Right-click the slide area and choose Format Background from the pop-up menu. From the Fill menu, click Picture and texture fill. Under Insert from: click File. Locate your new picture and click Insert. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on PC Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Reuse Slides. Click Browse in the Reuse Slides panel and select Browse Files. Double-click the PowerPoint presentation that contains the background you wish to copy. Check Keep Source Formatting and click the slide that contains the background you want. Click the left-hand slide preview to which you wish to apply the new master layout. Apply New Layout (Important): Right-click any selected slide, point to Layout, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Delete any unwanted slides or duplicates. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on Mac Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Insert Slides from Other Presentation… Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the background you wish to copy. Double-click or press Insert. This prompts the Slide Finder dialogue box. Make sure Keep design of original slides is unchecked and click the slide(s) that contains the background you want. Hold Shift key to select multiple slides. Apply New Layout (Important): Click Layout from the Home tab's Slides group, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery.

3 Digit Format New Release Model: Version Format Year.Update.Revision Year is last 2 digits of year a release is delivered E.g. “18” will be used for the release that ships in late 2017 or early 2018 Update tracks Release Update (RU) or Beta releases Revision tracks the associated RU Revision level (0, 1, 2) Easily determine what you have installed

New Release Model: Rollout 18.1.0 Production 18c Oracle Database 18.2.0 First Release Update 18.2.1 First Release Update Revision

Versioning Number Examples for Release 18c Major Version Release Update (RU) RU Revision (RUR) 18.1.0 18 1 Production 18.2.0 2 First Release Update (RU) 18.2.1 First Revision to RU (RUR) Oracle Confidential – Internal

Example Version Banner Oracle Database 18c Enterprise Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0 - Production                     Version 18.1.0.0.0 Oracle Confidential – Internal

Sample Version Number Timeline for 18c RUs and RURs Production April July October Jan 18.1.0 18.2.0 18.2.1 18.2.2 RU RUR #1 RUR #2 Note: No RURs planned for initial production release Oracle Confidential – Internal

Sample Version Number Timeline for 18c RUs and RURs Production April July Oct Jan 18.1.0 18.2.0 18.3.0 18.2.1 18.3.1 18.2.2 18.3.2 RU RUR #1 RUR #2 Note: No RURs planned for initial production release Oracle Confidential – Internal

Sample Version Number Timeline for 18c RUs and RURs Production April July October January 18.1.0 18.2.0 18.3.0 18.4.0 18.2.1 18.3.1 18.4.1 18.2.2 18.3.2 18.4.2 Note: No RURs planned for initial production release Oracle Confidential – Internal

When to Uptake RUs and RURs for Test/Dev Environments Test/Dev environments should always uptake the latest RU Quickly find and report any customer or workload-specific regressions in RU before production systems uptake RU <unclear what last bullet means> Production April July October January 18.1.0 18.2.0 18.3.0 18.4.0 18.5.0 18.6.0 18.2.1 18.3.1 18.4.1 18.5.1 18.2.2 18.3.2 18.4.2 Oracle Confidential – Internal

When to Uptake RUs and RURs for Production Environments Production Databases start by using latest RU for fastest stabilization RUs consolidate fixes for common issues encountered by customers and are highly tested as a bundle by Oracle before shipping When production DB stability is achieved, switch over to RURs seamlessly RURs primarily contain RU content with sufficient time allowed for the content to be proven in field by thousands of customer deployments and any regressions resolved <unclear what last bullet means> Production April July October January 18.1.0 18.2.0 18.3.0 18.4.0 18.5.0 18.6.0 18.2.1 18.3.1 18.4.1 18.5.1 18.2.2 18.3.2 18.4.2 Oracle Confidential – Internal

Oracle Database Development This is a Section Header with Picture slide ideal for including a picture with a brief title and optional subtitle. This slide can also be used as a Q and A slide. To customize this slide with your own picture: Right-click the slide area and choose Format Background from the pop-up menu. From the Fill menu, click Picture and texture fill. Under Insert from: click File. Locate your new picture and click Insert. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on PC Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Reuse Slides. Click Browse in the Reuse Slides panel and select Browse Files. Double-click the PowerPoint presentation that contains the background you wish to copy. Check Keep Source Formatting and click the slide that contains the background you want. Click the left-hand slide preview to which you wish to apply the new master layout. Apply New Layout (Important): Right-click any selected slide, point to Layout, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Delete any unwanted slides or duplicates. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on Mac Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Insert Slides from Other Presentation… Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the background you wish to copy. Double-click or press Insert. This prompts the Slide Finder dialogue box. Make sure Keep design of original slides is unchecked and click the slide(s) that contains the background you want. Hold Shift key to select multiple slides. Apply New Layout (Important): Click Layout from the Home tab's Slides group, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Internal Transformations Confidential – Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

Improving quality and increasing agility Huge investment in automation of stress testing Intelligent test selection based on content changes Project development on branches Date based releases: features meeting release quality criteria are in, those who aren’t are out. Always have RU / RUR version ready for release: continuous integration of bug fixes Oracle Confidential – Internal

Lifetime Support This is a Section Header with Picture slide ideal for including a picture with a brief title and optional subtitle. This slide can also be used as a Q and A slide. To customize this slide with your own picture: Right-click the slide area and choose Format Background from the pop-up menu. From the Fill menu, click Picture and texture fill. Under Insert from: click File. Locate your new picture and click Insert. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on PC Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Reuse Slides. Click Browse in the Reuse Slides panel and select Browse Files. Double-click the PowerPoint presentation that contains the background you wish to copy. Check Keep Source Formatting and click the slide that contains the background you want. Click the left-hand slide preview to which you wish to apply the new master layout. Apply New Layout (Important): Right-click any selected slide, point to Layout, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Delete any unwanted slides or duplicates. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on Mac Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Insert Slides from Other Presentation… Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the background you wish to copy. Double-click or press Insert. This prompts the Slide Finder dialogue box. Make sure Keep design of original slides is unchecked and click the slide(s) that contains the background you want. Hold Shift key to select multiple slides. Apply New Layout (Important): Click Layout from the Home tab's Slides group, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery.

Lifetime Support Yearly releases will be supported for patching for a minimum of 2 years after the next release goes out. Similar to patch set error correction policy Approximately every 3-5 years there will be a “Long Term” release which will be supported for 5 years premier support and 3 years extended support. The 18c and (likely) 19c releases will fall under the umbrella of Database 12.2 Lifetime support as if they were the 12.2.0.2 and 12.2.0.3 patch sets. Refer to MOS KM Note 742060.1 for details on Database release schedules. Oracle Confidential – Internal

Lifetime Support Commitments and Plans 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 11.2 EXTENDED 12.1 EXTENDED 12.2 EXTENDED 12.2.0.1 Oracle 18 Oracle 19Or Oracle 19 Oracle 19 EXTENDED Oracle 20 Premier Waived Extended Support Fee Paid Extended Support 26

Example of Future Support Timelines 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 Oracle 20 Oracle 21 Oracle 22 Oracle 23 LONG TERM SUPPORT RELEASE Oracle 24 Oracle 25 Standard Support Paid Extended Support Note: Sustaining Support Lasts Forever 27

Summary This is a Section Header with Picture slide ideal for including a picture with a brief title and optional subtitle. This slide can also be used as a Q and A slide. To customize this slide with your own picture: Right-click the slide area and choose Format Background from the pop-up menu. From the Fill menu, click Picture and texture fill. Under Insert from: click File. Locate your new picture and click Insert. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on PC Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Reuse Slides. Click Browse in the Reuse Slides panel and select Browse Files. Double-click the PowerPoint presentation that contains the background you wish to copy. Check Keep Source Formatting and click the slide that contains the background you want. Click the left-hand slide preview to which you wish to apply the new master layout. Apply New Layout (Important): Right-click any selected slide, point to Layout, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Delete any unwanted slides or duplicates. To copy the Customized Background from Another Presentation on Mac Click New Slide from the Home tab's Slides group and select Insert Slides from Other Presentation… Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the background you wish to copy. Double-click or press Insert. This prompts the Slide Finder dialogue box. Make sure Keep design of original slides is unchecked and click the slide(s) that contains the background you want. Hold Shift key to select multiple slides. Apply New Layout (Important): Click Layout from the Home tab's Slides group, and click the slide containing the desired layout from the layout gallery. Confidential – Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

Supporting Customer Needs for Cloud and On-Premises Agility Faster incremental delivery of new functionality in annual releases Seamlessly switch between RUs & RURs Zero downtime for install Quality Test faster with incremental changes that are easy to stabilize and less risky Reduce need for interim patches

Learn More at OpenWorld and Beyond MBC: Superior Quality and Simplicity: New Database Release Mode Mon, Oct 2 @ 2:30 PM | Tue, Oct 3 @ 2:00 PM |Moscone South Stars Bar DEMO SDB-024: New Release Model for Oracle Database Moscone South, Lower Left, Database MOS document 2285040.1: Release Update and Release Update Revisions for Database Proactive Patch Program 30