Minimal Downtime

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Minimal Downtime Challenge

There are several pitfalls when you plugin a non-CDB into a CDB environment. I’d like to highlight some of them – and show you potential workarounds as well. This is part of a series of blog posts to make your migration from non-CDB to PDB a bit smoother.

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Minimal Downtime Challenge

When we start to look at a migration from non-CDB to PDB for an important system, regardless of migrating on-prem or to the cloud, reducing the downtime is very important. In this blog post I’d like to highlight the different aspects …

Transient Logical Standby – Rolling Upgrades – Overview

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Minimal Downtime 28

Transient Logical Standby - Rolling Upgrades - Overview More than 10 years ago I was invited to work several weeks in Redwood Shores at the Oracle HQ for Lawrence To‘s MAA team together with Ray Dutcher, one of the greatest persons I have ever met and worked with in my over 20 years at Oracle. We had to work out a doable process for smooth rolling upgrades utilizing a physical standby database. Somebody named it Transient Logical Standby – Rolling Upgrades. And here’s a quick overview on it for clarification purposes. When you scroll to the end you will find a lot of useful links …