A few years ago I wrote the post All You Need to Know about Oracle Database Patching, and I also presented a presentation about this topic a few time. But
Category: Upgrade
ORA-30481 After Upgrading to 19cORA-30481 After Upgrading to 19c
Lately I’m in the process of upgrading a few clients to 18c and 19c, so I expected to hit a few issues. In this post I’ll discuss a specific issue
ORA-01722 During Upgrade to 18.10ORA-01722 During Upgrade to 18.10
These days I’m in the progress of patching all databases for a specific client to 18.10 (from 18.9 as we need to be up to date). However, we realized that
Did You Know #34 – DST Patches with PDBDid You Know #34 – DST Patches with PDB
When I worked on Oracle Cloud 20c for my Data Dictionary Changes post, I ran into a problem with DST difference. Oracle 20c (20.2) is coming with DST V34 while
Upgrading a GI on NFS to 18cUpgrading a GI on NFS to 18c
I wrote lately a couple of post about upgrading to 18c (why research is important and OCR and Voting disks on 18c and 19c). These posts were the result of
All You Need to Know about Oracle Database PatchingAll You Need to Know about Oracle Database Patching
This is a topic I wrote about in the past (understanding Oracle patching and new version numbering). But now, after the new patching concept (since 12.2) and numbering change (since
Why is it Important to do Research Before Upgrading?Why is it Important to do Research Before Upgrading?
One of my client is on 12.1 and since the support for 12.1 has ended we started planning the upgrade of this database. During the research I did before the
Oracle 19c – Features We Know AboutOracle 19c – Features We Know About
Oracle Open World was interesting like every year. This year, Oracle started talking about features that will probably be in Oracle 19c (which is the last 12.2 release). The rumor
DST Patch in Active Standby EnvironmentDST Patch in Active Standby Environment
Different software components (operating systems, databases, etc.) are updating our clocks automatically when our country changes the clock (when daylight saving starts or ends). In order to do that, the
Installing PSU (GI+RAC+JVM)Installing PSU (GI+RAC+JVM)
I’ve installed quite a few PSUs in my professional life, but this time, it was something else. I’m talking about a RAC environment with 2 nodes and a database containing