
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports automatic time zone file upgrades for single-tenant instances, eliminating the need for manual data migration when updating daylight savings time definitions.


<div><p>This article announces that Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports automatic time zone file upgrades for single-tenant instances on multitenant container database (CDB) architecture.</p><ul><li>Automates daylight savings time (DST) time zone file version upgrades</li><li>Eliminates need to manually provision new instances and migrate data</li><li>Supports TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types</li><li>Enable via TIMEZONE_FILE_AUTOUPGRADE option in RDS Console or AWS CLI</li><li>Available for new or existing DB instances</li></ul><p>This feature simplifies time zone management for Oracle databases by automating upgrades to the latest time zone definitions without manual intervention.</p></div>


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