Very good news for all customers using Oracle RESTART:
The Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn.
I have blogged in the past several times about Oracle RESTART of course either regarding upgrade, downgrade and patching:
And one of the customers I work with for quite a while, Swiss Mobiliar Insurance uses Oracle RESTART for all their Oracle Database environments:
The question all customers I deal with who use Oracle RESTART: How long will Oracle support it? And will there be a successor product? The customers raised this question because of the Deprecation Announcement Oracle published a while ago.
Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn
Today I’m sitting in a presentation at the OTN Tour stop in Montevideo, Uruguay and watching Markus Michalewicz, Senior Director Product Management RAC, presenting and showing this slide:
It’s true. Oracle withdrew the deprecation announcement for Oracle Restart as of July 10, 2017.
Please find the official notice in MOS Note: 1584742.1 – Withdrawn: Deprecation Announcement of Oracle Restart with Oracle Database 12c.
These are very good news for a lot of customers out there.
–Mike
Great news! Thanks for sharing!!
That’s good news. It’s a rather quirky service but we use it for all our production servers (non-RAC) and it works well. Oracle didn’t seem to have a planned replacement for it.
Simon,
there was a replacement planned – thus the deprecation notice for RESTART. But things have changed now. And therefore RESTART is (still) fully supported and nothing is deprecated anymore.
Cheers
Mike