This time the AutoUpgrade team did magic and included so many great new features and useful enhancements into the new version of AutoUpgrade. So, please note: The August 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.4) is available for download. You should refresh your current versions, especially when you use it for patching, and especially if you attempt to do in an RAC (Real Application Clusters) environment. But read more below. Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash How to download it? As usual,...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
Those of you who have been to our workshops in the past 3 years know that we promote one feature as the ultimate killer feature for moving to Oracle Database 19c and 23ai: Refreshable Clones. These work not only from PDB to PDB, but magically also with a non-CDB. And our teams works with a good number of customers using exactly this technique to Oracle 23ai. Now, we talked about it. And we blogged about it (see below). But there is a brand-new MOS note out there showcasing an AutoUpgrade migr...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
Let’s kick it off. When the ora2know group started at DOAG conference in Nuernberg in November 2024, we committed ourselves to support them. And this is exactly the reason why I am going to i…| Upgrade your Database - NOW!
I am jealous, and so happy. There are so happy about the fact that we have such skilled minds in the industry. One of them is Marcus Vinicius, an Oracle ACE Pro from Brazil who lives in Dallas, TX …| Upgrade your Database - NOW!
Many of you know it and downloaded it already. But just in case you are not aware yet, let me give you a quick summary since the May 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.3) is available for download. Photo by julien Tromeur on Unsplash How to download it? That’s very simple. You either download it via the well-known MOS Note: 2485457.1 – AutoUpgrade Tool or you fetch it directly from oracle.com with curl, wget or by just clicking on the big buttom. What’s new? Well, 25.3 is a one-fix-only...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
No worries, I don’t start writing a travel blog. Or, maybe one day I will. But not for now. Daniel and I will be on the road again next week for a full day workshop in Utrecht on May 6 and in Brussels on May 7. Brussels is sold out already, the registration is closed. But in Utrecht we still have a few seats open due to the superb conference auditorium space in the Oracle office. Clearly, Utrecht in Spring is beautiful – and we’ll be there on May 6. And it is very close to Brussels in ...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
I keep saying this – we have the best and most skilled customers. Christian Klose from my Franconian home region contacted me via LinkedIn and asked for some assistance with an SR. I confess, I replied way too late (information overflow). But the finding Christian had is great to know. There are new interesting underscores for more than 255 _FIX_CONTROLs. Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash Why don’t you see them in ORAdiff? As usual, I went to ORAdiff and tried to find out anything about t...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
Having good friends in Oracle is key. And honestly one of the best things in my role. Philippe Fierens, product manager for Oracle’s Fleet Patching and Provisioning mailed me yesterday night sharing that there is an interesting change coming with Database Release Update 19.27: Small Pages not allowed for SGA from 19.27 and newer on Exadata. Photo byGeorge Bonev on Unsplash What does this mean? As you can read in MOS Note: 3081878.1 – Starting DBRU 19.27 Small Pages Are Not Allowed for RDB...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
I know, not everybody is a huge fan of new features in RUs. But how do find new features in Oracle Release Updates (RUs)? Are the listed anywhere? They are, no worries. At least since Oracle Database 19c. Photo by Jake Weirick on Unsplash New Features in RUs? I can already sense that some of you will be tempted to comment and tell me that you don’t like any new features in Oracle Database Release Updates, in short: RUs. But on the other hand there is also something good with it. Rather than...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
London calling! Your chance to attend our first full-day Upgrade 19c and 23ai Workshop in London on April 9, 2025 in a decade. Yes, you read correctly. We’ve run such a workshop the last time in 2014. This was when you used an iPhone 6 at best case. Most importantly, this is an in-person only event. No streaming will be available. Photo by Lachlan Gowen on Unsplash How do you register? Simple. No extra cost. Zero marketing. Just tech!! But be aware that you should free up your seat in cas...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
It’s time for a new version of AutoUpgrade. The 25.1 version of AutoUpgrade is available for download. And you should refresh your existing versions quickly since we added plenty of new and long awaited features but we of course fixed also known bugs. Photo by John Rodenn Castillo on Unsplash How to download AutoUpgrade 25.1 Not only can you download the newest AutoUpgrade and its previous versions from MOS Note:2485457.1 – Download AutoUpgrade. But for many of you it may be easier to jus...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
I had to shorten the headline a bit. It got very bulky saying at first: Use a Refreshable Clone with AutoUpgrade from non-CDB to PDB but keep your RAC configuration alive. Well, you see, that’s bulky. But it describes the case I would like to briefly show you. Helmut Pfau, a colleague of mine here in Germany asked this the other day, and it took us a bit to get the correct answer to him – I confess, simply because I didn’t know the right AutoUpgrade parameter. Photo by Adrian Infernus o...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
Quick blog post only since I received this question 3x this week in various ways from customers. Why isn’t the newest JDK in this Oracle Release Update? Let me try to answer and explain it. J…| Upgrade your Database - NOW!
Daniel pointed me to Tim Hall’s blog post about deprecated and desupported features in Oracle Database 23c. And his first bullet point mentioned is the DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport i…| Upgrade your Database - NOW!