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Recap: Support Periods for Oracle 11.2.0.4, on-prem and in the cloud

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Release Schedule 6

You may have recognized that I don’t update the blog as frequent as usual. But these times are very busy with plenty of conferences and many of our customers preparing for the move to 19c in the more quieter period of the year. And this is the right time to do a quick recap: Support Periods for Oracle 11.2.0.4, on-prem and in the cloud.

Recap: Support Period for Oracle 11.2.0.4, on-prem and in the cloud

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11.2.0.what?

Ah, well. Do you remember when Oracle Database 11.2.0.1 got released?

No worries, I’ve had to look it up by …

Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog – DOHDATABASE.com

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud 0

You may have realized that you will find mostly on-prem database upgrade and migration topics covered on my blog. Which doesn’t mean that you can’t use most of these techniques to migrate to the cloud either. But it’s really hard to write about everything in full detail. Hence, today I’d like to introduce you to Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog – DOHDATABASE.com. And no, I was never a fan of this American boyband from the 80s and 90s 😉

Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog - DOHDATABASE.com

Find Daniel’s blog at: https://dohdatabase.com

DOHDATABASE … huh?

Daniel Overby Hansen

As you may have read a …

How long can you provision database version X in the Cloud? – NEW

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Release Schedule 0

A few weeks ago I published a blog post about provisioning dates in Oracle Cloud environments for different databases releases. As we did an important update, I rewrite today: How long can you provision database version X in the Cloud? – NEW.

What has changed since the original post?

The key point in the previous blog post was:

“And by end of this calendar year, the option to provision an Oracle 12.2.0.1 instance will go away. The same will happen in less than 1 year with Oracle 11.2.0.4 instances.”.

With “this calendar year” I pointed to end of 2018. …

How long can you provision database version X in the Cloud?

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud 2

That’s a question I have gotten several times already: How long can you provision database version X in the Cloud? Meaning, is there a fixed date when you’ll be unable to provision an instance containing Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 for instance?

How long can you provision database version X in the Cloud?

Please find the updated blog post here:

How long can you provision database version X in the Cloud? – NEW

–Mike…

Patching to Oracle 18.2.0 in the Oracle Cloud (OCI Classic)

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Patch Recommendation 8

I was quite surprised when I spotted the Update (RU) Oracle 18.2.0 mid of April in my OCI Classic (DBCS, DBaaS) account. Of course I was thrilled immediately and started the patching to Oracle 18.2.0 in the Oracle Cloud (OCI Classic).

Patching to Oracle 18.2.0 in the Oracle Cloud (OCI Classic)

The April 2018 Updates (and Bundle Patches and Patch Set Updates for Oracle releases below 12.2) got released on April 17, 2018. You can read more here on how I applied all of them to my Oracle 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2 and 12.2.0.1 databases. But I was positively surprised when …

Unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and plugin into 18c in the Cloud

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Single-/Multitenant 6

There’s been silence for a while – but today I’d like to show you how to unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and plugin into 18c in the Cloud. I’m doing this exercise because I’ve seen questions already. And I was curious if it works as I’d expect it.

Unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and plugin into 18c in the Cloud

As usual I will use our hands-on lab environment – and a freshly deployed 18c OCI-Classic instance (formerly known as DBCS formerly known as DBaaS).

Unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and plugin into 18c inthe Cloud

It is a Single Tenant environment with one PDB. If you need for information about how to …

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud OOW 3

Thanks for coming to Roy’s and Julian Dontcheff‘s presentation about How to migrate to the Oracle Cloud – 13 different techniques and customer experiences on Tuesday at Oracle Open World 2017. The talk was very well attended, I saw many people taking pictures and notes.

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

Personally I liked the talk a lot as it gives a very good (and very rare) complete overview on techniques how to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, advantages, use cases, database versions, where to use it. This all garnished with the experience Accenture has …

Gather SQL Statements from AWR and Cursor Cache without need for Diag and Tuning Packs

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich AWR Cloud Statistics 2

When we talk about database upgrades and migrations the most important (and unfortunately time-/resource consuming) activity is testing.

But often testing resources are limited or, even worse, don’t exist. I’ve worked with customers where we migrated a core EBS system off AIX to Linux – but only got a 6 year old Tru64 box for testing purposes (where the recompilation took 20x as long as later on the production environment). Or the classic one: Database is too big thus we test only with 10% of the data.

I know that often your hands are tied. Everybody wants an 1:1 …

APEX is in CDB$ROOT again – Journey to the Cloud VII

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich APEX Cloud Single-/Multitenant 0

Well … it’s been a while … but I would like to continue my journey to the cloud …

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

Full Transportable Export/Import – Migrating an 11.2.0.4 database to Oracle Database 12c- into the Oracle Cloud

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Data Pump Transportable Video / Viewlet 38

Full Transportable Export/Import – one of the coolest features in Oracle Database 12c

We blogged about Full Transportable Export/Import a while back. It is – no doubt – one of the coolest features in Oracle Database 12c. And it is part of our Hands-On Lab exercise (Hands On Lab – Upgrade, Migrate, Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c) as well.

It utilizes the technique of Transportable Tablesspaces – cross-platform, cross- Endianness, cross-version – but lets Oracle Data Pump do all the “dirty” work of rebuilding everything kept in your SYSTEM and SYSAUX tablespace including views, synonyms, public objects, …

Patching does not work – Journey to the Cloud VI

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Patch Recommendation 0

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

Patching in the Cloud

I would like to patch my Oracle DBaaS Cloud today. It was so simple a …

Clean up APEX – Journey to the Cloud IV

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich APEX Cloud Removal 3

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

Today’s journey: Cleanup APEX removal leftovers

When you read my “Patch” blog post from Dec 22, 2015 you’ll see

Patch, patch, patch – Journey to the Cloud – III

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Patch Recommendation 4

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

I haven’t stopped my journey if you wonder about the inactivity for two weeks. I just had to learn …

Switch on/off + Remove – Journey to the Oracle Cloud – II

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud Removal 6

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

Day 2 of my Cloud exploration journey.

In my blog posts about my DBaaS Cloud journey I won’t explain …

Push a Button – Journey to the Oracle Cloud – I

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud 6

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

Isn’t that a great marketing picture/poster?

But the real question is:

How do you move a database to the

Cloud

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Unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and plugin into 18c in the Cloud

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

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What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

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