Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 for Windows available

Robert van Amerongen says:

Hi Sven and Mike

On My Oracle Support the “Certification Information for Oracle Database on Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit) (Doc ID 1307195.1)” is updated (maybe in June 2017) with this section:

Windows 2016 O/S Information:

• The following editions are supported:
◦ Windows Server 2016 Essentials (x64)
◦ Windows Server 2016 Standard (x64)
◦ Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (x64)

• No support for Server Core
• Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 and earlier will not be certified with Windows Server 2016

But the careful reader will notice that this is not stating that 12.2.0.1 is supported yet on Windows Server 2016.
It is only a promise that 12.1.0.2 and earlier will not be certified with Windows Server 2016.

Therefore the certifications tab on My Oracle Support must bring the answer. And this is (today)

“Oracle Database 12.2.0.1.0 is certified on Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit) 2016”

Similar information can be found at a public Oracle website:
https://docs.oracle.com/database/122/NTDBN/toc.htm#NTDBN-GUID-16CE4A27-218C-4716-AEAF-6388C1D53A4F

(if the “GUID” is not working search for “Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Support” at the toc.htm)

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) is certified on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Standard, Datacenter, and Essentials Editions), which includes support for the database client, server, and Oracle Real Application Clusters. The following database features require patches for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 certification:

• Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
◦ Oracle ACFS on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 must apply the second bundle patch or higher to Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2).

• Oracle Server Management (SRVM)
◦ For some network errors, SRVM may fail on Microsoft Windows Server 2016. This issue is fixed by applying the second bundle patch or higher of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2).

• Oracle Cluster Health Monitor (CHM)
◦ CHM may fail intermittently on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 due to an unexpected termination of the Microsoft’s Windows Management Instrumentation service. The issue is being actively investigated with Microsoft and will be addressed in a future bundle patch.

The last 2 features are used in “Oracle Database QoS Management”.

So when not using these 3 features, guess the base release is stable enough to start on Windows Server 2016.
Otherwise “wait for bundle patch 2 (or higher)”. But the bundle patches are not numbered 1, 2, 3 … anymore.

I can find only 1 bundle patch (today) : Patch 25894005: WINDOWS DB BUNDLE PATCH 12.2.0.1.170516
So this is number 1?
And around 18 July 2017 there will be new Critical Patch Updates released.
So if there is a bundle patch for 12.2.0.1, this will be number 2?

Mike :
– Since I have done some guessing maybe you can disapprove or confirm these guesses.
– Is there already more news about Oracle Database 12.2 and “Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Support” that can be shared?

Mayank Rustagi says:

Hello Mike,

We were trying to create an empty database using DBCA in 12cr2 on windows 2016 machine. But after 8% completion of the creation of DB, we are getting ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel and in alert log we are getting below error:

Exception [type: ACCESS_VIOLATION, UNABLE_TO_READ] [ADDR:0x7FF6AFC4B060] [PC:0x7FF7745899C5, slsupdatecpustat()+373]
ERROR: Unable to normalize symbol name for the following short stack (at offset 109):
dbgexProcessError()+398<-dbgePostErrorKGE()+2191<-dbkePostKGE_kgsf()+90<-kgeade()+453<-kgerelv()+151<-kgerev..4()+59<-kgerec5()+64<-sss_xcpt_EvalFilterEx()+2731<-sss_xcpt_EvalFilter()+243<-BackgroundThreadStart()+1148<-00007FFF4081F2CB<-_GSHandlerCheck_SEH()+118<-00007FFF547DA57D<-00007FFF5476FD23<-00007FFF547D96EA<-slsupdatecpustat()+373<-slsgetstat()+158<-ksugetosstat()+102<-kskosstatact()+94<-kskdbrmtoutact()+247<-ksbcti..1()+348<-ksbabs()+15825<-ksbrdp()+1556<-opirip()+1539<-opidrv()+960<-sou2o()+112<-opimai_real()+222<-opimai()+231<-BackgroundThreadStart()+702<-00007FFF522184D4<-00007FFF5479E851
Errors in file I:\APP\ORACLE\diag\rdbms\kaoaqa\kaoaqa\trace\kaoaqa_dbrm_6672.trc (incident=124881):
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [slsupdatecpustat()+373] [ACCESS_VIOLATION] [ADDR:0x7FF6AFC4B060] [PC:0x7FF7745899C5] [UNABLE_TO_READ] []
Incident details in: I:\APP\ORACLE\diag\rdbms\kaoaqa\kaoaqa\incident\incdir_124881\kaoaqa_dbrm_6672_i124881.trc

Can you please advise what is this error?

Thanks,
Mayank