AIOUG OC Yatra 2025 is over, and I somehow recovered as well. As I wrote here, it was (again) an incredible experience with all those wonderful people (you!!) and those crazy speakers (us!) – and I learned a lot again. Still, I had no clue that Database and Developer evangelist and video wizard Connor McDonald would react to my friendly nagging 🙂 Photo by Graham Holtshausen on Unsplash Have you used AutoUpgrade before? If you say “No, not really“, then this video is for you. See how ...| Upgrade your Database – NOW!
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!
I just returned the other day from the most strenuous trips I do once a year: The AIOUG Oracle Community Yatra tour. 6 cities in 9 days. It’s a wild ride with flights and bus transfers in bet…| Upgrade your Database - NOW!
Time flies so quickly. Soon we’ll get together again in Las Vegas for Oracle Cloud World 2025. This year, it will be in October where hopefully it’s a few degrees colder (or less hot) t…| Upgrade your Database - NOW!
AutoUpgrade 25ai – zum Zeitpunkt des Artikels war 25.3 verfügbar – bring wieder einige interessante Neuheiten. Die meisten haben mit Verbesserungen bei dem seit AutoUpgrade 24.7 verfügbaren automatischen Installieren von Out-of-Place Homes zu tun. Hinweis: …| Database Blog
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!
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!
Nicola made a comment the other day informing me that they hit an issue on some of their databases when upgrading. But is there a general issue with ORA-12850 when you run AutoUpgrade? Or is this e…| 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!
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!
