No worries, this blog won’t become a “new version” announcement blog. But after two weeks of relaxing Easter holidays I just start cleaning up my inbox and flushing out blog posts as soon as time allows. One thing I need to share with you is that a new version 24.1.0 of CPAT is available for download. CPAT? You may not have read about CPAT on my blog yet. But this will change in the future since the CPAT development is now part of our small team as well. And we get happily tied into more and more Autonomous Database (ADB) … The post A new version 24.1.0 of CPAT is available appeared first on U ..read more

It has been a longer while – but the Upgrade Dev team worked very hard. And finally, the new AutoUpgrade Tool is available in March 2024. And it brings a ton of new enhancements and features. Some of them, for instance the windows services support, were awaited by you for a long time. Still, there’s much more to talk about. Photo by Sergey Shmidt on Unsplash   Download the newest version of AutoUpgrade As usual, you can download it from MOS Note:2485457.1 – Download AutoUpgrade. And when you check the version, you already find some of the new … The post New AutoUpgrade Tool is available ..read more

Next week it’s Oracle Cloud World 2024 in London. And I hope to see you there. It is a perfect spot to get the latest tech updates but also to meet and synch and discuss. Not registered yet? Registration to Oracle Cloud World 2024 in London on March 14, 2024 In addition, there is a DevLive event the day before with about 40 separate sessions.   Upgrade to Oracle Database 23c talk? Would love to see you there. But certainly there are so many other great sessions. Check out the session catalog, and choose the ones you are the … The post Oracle Cloud World 2024 in London appeared first on ..read more

Thanks for tuning in on Feb 22, 2024 into our Virtual Classroom Seminar 18: XTTS to the Extreme – Video and Slides and more are now available. And thanks for being such a great audience with so many questions. Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash Video Recording As usual, you can access the full recording here. Please find the entire contents section below in the video’s description. You don’t need to watch the entire seminar, you can also access only the sections you are interested in, or skip sections which are not on your focus. 00:08 – Welcome to … The post Virtual Classroom Seminar 18: XT ..read more

Those of you who have received an email to attend the Upgrade / Migration / Performance / 19c / 23c workshop on Feb 27, 2024 in Warsaw, Poland, please note that we have changed the location to accommodate more people. Photo by Łukasz Nieścioruk on Unsplash Originally, the workshop was going to happen at the Oracle Office in Warsaw. But we moved it to: HUB Convention Center Crowne Plaza® Warsaw – The HUB Holiday Inn Express® Warsaw – The HUB Rondo Daszyńskiego 2 00-843 Warsaw Please make sure to arrive at 9:00h, we will start straight at 9:30h and … The post IMPORTANT: Location change for the ..read more

This week on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 16:00h CET we’d like to invite you to our next Virtual Classroom Seminar 18: Cross Platform Migration to the Extreme. Take the chance to learn about the newest developments in cross-platform transportable tablespace migrations – and there is a lot to talk about. What will be the topics? We’ll not only discuss but also demonstrate the newest developments and improvements in cross-platform migrations, especially for large and active databases. Learn about the new M5 migration scripts, see them in action – and get an idea about how to tackle large and ..read more

What a weird blog post. But let me explain briefly the motivation for my Friday article. As you know, the blog serves also as my brain dump. And whenever I try something out I know I may need later again, I dump it here. Certainly, some LLM will pick up the information and spill it out later when you ask the interface about How to relink Oracle for Enterprise or Standard Edition? Photo by Roberta Doyle on Unsplash From Enterprise to Standard Edition? Of course, you can. But I had no idea how to when Philippe Fierens, the PM … The post How to relink Oracle for Enterprise or Standard Edition ..read more

Today, Gisela, a former team mate from CSS/ACS Support contacted me regarding an issue seen at a customer. She reported an ORA-39405 with impdp when you have mixed time zone versions. But how can this happen? And what are the potential workarounds? Since some of our hosted environments got into the same situation already, this may be worth a blog post and some explanation. Photo by Benjamin Voros on Unsplash Why does this happen? You never cared about DST (Daylight Savings Time) files and versions of your database? This isn’t unusual, and in many environments actually not a problem … The pos ..read more

I held back this blog post for a longer while. A customer (Thanks Jannes!) reported this to me many months ago but the fix was not as trivial as we thought initially, and there were several unlucky circumstances delaying it multiple times. But now it is time to tell you how datapatch stores rollback patching files in the database. And of course, how to cleanup. Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash Why is this important? At first, you may ask yourself: Why should I care? And you are right. This is normally nothing you should care about. … The post datapatch stores rollback patching files in ..read more

Uwe Kirchhoff, one of the best techies I know in the entire Oracle CSS (formerly ACS) Support, mailed me before the Christmas holidays with a simple question. He discovered that altering init.ora parameters in a session does not necessarily write the parameter down into the spfile. Sounds a bit like Voodoo with init parameters,  and Oracle Restart has a role in this story as well. If you don’t have or do not plan to use Oracle Restart, then this is not interesting for you. But of course, you are free to still read it ? Photo by Marko Manojlovic on … The post Voodoo with init parameters ..read more