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Virtual Classroom Seminar 16: Release and Patching Strategy for Oracle 19c and 23c

There are just two days left to sign up for our Virtual Classroom Seminar 16: Release and Patching Strategy for Oracle 19c and 23c. We’ll talk to you on Wednesday, May 10 at 16:00h CET.

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What’s the topic?

We’ll try to cover everything for your best release and patching strategy with Oracle Database 19c of course, but also moving forward to Oracle Database 23c. Our big focus will be several aspects of patching. You’ll hear us talking not only about standard database patching but especially about patching in RAC environments.

We’ll put together a …

Oracle Database World in London – THE event in April 2023

Posted on April 5, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich Conference Workshop 7

You may have heard or seen – or even registered already – for the regional Oracle Cloud World in London on April 19, 2023 already. But were you aware that the “event to be at” happens just the next day on April 20? It will be Oracle Database World in London – THE event in April 2023.

When and where will it happen?

April 20, 2023, a Thursday will be the day to mark in your calendar. We’ll meet you at Oracle Database World, the regional database event to be at in London this year at the …

Virtual Classroom Seminar #15: Data Pump Best Practices on April 5, 2023

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich Best Practice Data Pump Workshop 4

We are quite busy these days. And I am lagging behind in answering your comments on the blog. So please be patient, nothing will be lost. Meanwhile, we work hard on the slides for our next Virtual Classroom Seminar #15: Data Pump Best Practices on April 5, 2023.

Virtual Classroom Seminar #15: Data Pump Best Practices on April 5, 2023

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What will be the topic?

Data Pump Best Practices and Real World Scenarios tells you already what we are planning to do. After we had a “Data Pump Deep Dive with Development” seminar last year (time flies so quickly), we decided that we should tackle …

OC YATRA 2022 visiting 6 cities in India in July 2022

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Yes, you read correctly in my blog post’s title: OC YATRA 2022 visiting 6 cities in India in July 2022. And it is already July. Just a few days to sign up – if you haven’t already. So please register here: https://www.aioug.org/ocyatra-2022

Just pick one of the six cities from the agenda page:

23 July 2022, Saturday – Chennai
24 July 2022, Sunday – Bengaluru
26 July 2022, Tuesday – Mumbai
28 July 2022, Thursday – Pune
30 July 2022, Saturday – Delhi
31 July 2022, Sunday – Hyderabad

And register yourself.

Please check out the awesome agenda with …

Virtual Classroom Seminar #14: AutoUpgrade 2.0 on May 5, 2022

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 4

If you finally want to see all the cool new features of AutoUpgrade 2.0 (the 2.0 is just a marker we use to say: We improved it significantly!), the please sign up to Virtual Classroom Seminar #14: AutoUpgrade 2.0 on May 5, 2022.

Virtual Classroom Seminar #14: AutoUpgrade 2.0 on May 5, 2022

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What are we going to talk about?

The development team invested a lot of resources to implement some of the most wanted features in AutoUpgrade. Spoiler: One feature is still missing but will be released very soon. In this Thursday’s Virtual Classroom Seminar we will talk about:

PDB and non-CDB

Virtual Classroom Seminar 13 Data Pump – Slides, Video and QA

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Video / Viewlet Workshop 4

Thanks a lot to everybody who tuned in last week to our Virtual Classroom Seminar #13: Data Pump Extreme – Deep Dive with Development. We’ve had almost 600 attendees, and many of you stayed for the two full hours. And let me tell you that this is just awesome since there are enough people who think that a session has to be just 30 minutes or less. And of course, no it is time to share: Virtual Classroom Seminar 13 Data Pump – Slides, Video and QA.

Virtual Classroom Seminar 13 Data Pump - Slides, Video and QA

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The slides

As usual, you can …

Virtual Classroom Seminar 13: Data Pump Extreme – Deep Dive with Development

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 10

We worked very hard in the past weeks to compile our newest Virtual Classroom Seminar 13: Data Pump Extreme – Deep Dive with Development for you. Now it’s time to sign up for Thursday, March 3, 2022.

Virtual Classroom Seminar 13: Data Pump Extreme - Deep Dive with Development

When will it happen?

Our 13th Virtual Classroom Seminar will happen this Thursday, March 3, 2022 at a hopefully convenient time for you:

14:00h CET – 13:00 BST – 10 a.m. EST – 7 a.m. PST – 20:00h IST

As usual, we will be available to all your Data Pump questions throughout the entire seminar. Just use the QA option of the zoom …

Virtual Classroom Seminars 10-12: Videos and Slides are available

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Thanks to all of you for participating in our last 3 web seminar session. And since some of you had to leave earlier in one of the Virtual Classroom Seminars 10-12: Videos and Slides are available for download and on-demand viewing.

Virtual Classrom Seminar - Migrating Large Databases

No registration is required – you can watch all of our seminars anytime.

And as usual, our workshops are free of buzz words and explain only technical topics. The presenters Roy Swonger, Daniel Overby Hansen, Rodrigo Jorge, Bill Beauregard and myself, we all love to talk about technical topics, show and share demos and put …

Virtual Classroom Seminar 12: Migrating Very Large Databases on Dec 9, 2021

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

It looks to me that every possible event in 2021 happens in October/November/December 2021. No complaint from my side – but just in case you wonder about so little update activity on our blogs since weeks. We are just so busy in delivering virtual seminars. Which is good – but it requires lots of effort on our side as we want to deliver decent quality and real tech content. And now, since the year is almost at its end, it is time for our final Virtual Classroom Seminar 12: Migrating Very Large Databases on Dec 9, 2021 this year.

Virtual Classroom Seminar 12: Migrating Very Large Databases on Dec 9, 2021

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Virtual Classroom Seminar: Fallback Is Your Insurance – on Nov 11, 2021

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 4

No worries, I haven’t become lazy recently. But the past weeks were more busy than anything I have experienced so far. And I had a full week off and enjoyed the silence and absence from blogs and cell phones and email in the mountains. But now I’m back – and surprise, surprise – this week on Thursday we’ll have our 11th Virtual Classroom Seminar: Fallback Is Your Insurance – on Nov 11, 2021.

Fallback Seminar

When will it happen?

Thursday, Nov 11, 2021 – 10:00h CET

What are we going to talk about?

Fallback and Rollback. How to secure your job. …

How Low Can You Go? Zero Downtime Operations on Oct 21, 2021

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 4

No idea what you should do this week’s Thursday morning at 10:00h CET? No worries, I know what you should do. You’ll attend our 10th Virtual Classroom Seminar: How Low Can You Go? Zero Downtime Operations on Oct 21, 2021, part of our Upgrade to Oracle Database 19c series.

How Low Can You Go? Zero Downtime Operations

Virtual Classroom Seminars?

It will be the 10th Episode of our Virtual Classroom Seminar series. If you attend one or many before, you know that we don’t do marketing but transport only tech content. And always things we tried out by ourselves beforehand or used them already in many …

aioug Webinar on July 2, 2021 – Release Model and Patching Strategy

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

As you may have read already in my previous post, we will start into the July Online Summit for the aioug (All Indian Oracle User Group) this week. Roy Swonger, VP Database Upgrade, Utilities and Patching will present the aioug Webinar on July 2, 2021 – Release Model and Patching Strategy.

aioug Webinar on July 2, 2021 - Release Model and Patching Strategy

How to register?

Simply register yourself please with the following link:

Register here for:Release Model and Patching Strategy

When will it happen?

As you can see in the above picture, July 2, 2021 at 18:00h Indian Time – which converts to:

in other time zones.

Tell

aioug Webinar Series July 2021: Database Upgrade and Migrations

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Many people on the northern hemisphere will escape during July into the summer holidays. But we won’t. Instead, thanks to Sai Penumuru, we will give seven webinars for the aioug. And we are looking forward to talk to you soon at the aioug Webinar Series July 2021: Database Upgrade and Migrations.

aioug Webinar Series July 2021: Database Upgrade and Migrations

When will it happen?

This morning I looked into my calendar. And I realized: Wow, July 2021 is just a few days away. Roy will start with the first session on Friday, July 2. And then myself, Rodrigo, Daniel, Fred and Bill will …

Virtual Classroom Series – Episode 2: Database Upgrade on Feb 18

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 11

If you haven’t signed up, there are less than 48 hours left to sign up now to our Virtual Classroom Series – Episode 2: Database Upgrade on Feb 18. We’ll cover everything you need to know for a smooth and successful database upgrade to Oracle 19c.

Virtual Classroom Series - Episode 2: Database Upgrade on Feb 18

What’s the topic this time?

Upgrades.

What else? Haha!

No worries. We have a lot of fresh content and a full agenda. Our focus is to equip you with everything you need to know about upgrades – to make your next upgrade(s) the smoothest upgrade experience ever. We will cover mostly AutoUpgrade but …

Virtual Classroom Episode 8: Upgrade Internals and so much more

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

This is your final chance to sign up within the next hours to our Virtual Classroom Episode 8: Upgrade Internals and so much more We will run this session on Wednesday Feb 10 at 10:00h CET tomorrow. And in case you don’t know yet what to do on a ice-cold winter Wednesday morning, this is what you should do.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Upgrades (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Virtual Classroom Episode 8: Upgrade Internals and so much more

You see the agenda in the picture above. We will cover not only internals but also diagnosability, monitoring, troubleshooting, tipps, tricks, secrets, workarounds, gothas, dos and don’ts – …

Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 – 10am PST

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 6

Tomorrow we’ll start our new Virtual Classroom Web Seminar Series, this time for the Americas in a convenient 10am – noon Pacific Time zone. So this is your final change to Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 – 10am PST.

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Why you want to participate?

Roy, Daniel and I will kick of this series with the Episode 1: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices for a reason. We get a ton of question regarding both topics every day. Everybody wants to know about …

Sign up for the Upgrade 19c Virtual Classroom Seminars for the US, Canada and LAD

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 7

It took a while. And many of you asked whether we will run our Virtual Classroom Seminars we ran successfully for Australia and New Zealand in April and from June to now in EMEA for the US, Canada and South and Latin America time zones as well. And we do. It’s time to Sign up for the Upgrade 19c Virtual Classroom Seminars for the US, Canada and LAD.

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Everything you need to know about Upgrade, Migration and Consolidation

When we ran these events especially for EMEA, a lot of colleagues asked us whether …

Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 – Quick Recap

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 8

Thanks to everyone attending our Cool Features – not only for DBAs web seminar yesterday on Jan 14, 2021. As over 500 attendees stayed until the end of the 2 hour long session with not less than 16 different features, we assume that you’ve enjoyed it. And from the questions you did ask, it looks like as some of the features really caught your attention. On Feb 10 it’s time for the next session for EMEA and India. But beforehand, let’s do a Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 – Quick Recap, especially regarding the questions you’ve had.

Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 - Quick Recap

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Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you are all well. After an heavily active 2020 with more virtual seminars than ever before it’s time to start in 2021 with Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7 on Jan 14, 2021.

Cool Features not only for DBAs - Virtual Classroom Series No.7

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Why Cool Features for DBAs?

Actually the idea is not new. And we’ve included some slides into our workshops already for quite a while. But there are simply too many cool features. Our focus is in features which usually don’t make it into advertising or …

Upgrade Essentials – Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Video / Viewlet Workshop 0

Roy, Daniel and I ran 6 workshops in our Virtual Classroom Series 2000 format. Each of them is between 90 and 120 minutes. This sounds quite long but of course you can scroll forward if you are interested in only a part of it. We consider those the Upgrade Essentials – Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020. As as we now completed the 6th web seminar, it’s time for a short recap.

Upgrade Essentials - Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020

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Is Upgrade that complicated?

Good question. If upgrade is so easy as we say, why do you need 6 virtual sessions …

Upgrade to Oracle 19c – Virtual Classroom Series – Parts 5 and 6

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

October will be a very busy month. Daniel and I are putting the slides together at the moment for the upcoming Upgrade to Oracle 19c – Virtual Classroom Series – Parts 5 and 6. We will speak about “Database Migration Techniques” and about “Move to the Cloud – For Techies Only“. No worries if you missed Parts 1-4 as you can watch all of them online on-demand. Find all links below.

Upgrade to Oracle 19c – Virtual Classroom Series - Parts 5 and 6

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Register for the Virtual Classroom Part 5 and Part 6 events

Find the overview for both events here …

User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

I didn’t blog a lot in the past weeks. At the moment, most of my time is consumed either by customer web meetings and workshops, or the preparation for the User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching. Below I will list these – please feel free to sign up. #SupportUserGroups

User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching

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October 1 – Swiss Oracle User Group

October will start for me with a keynote for the Swiss Oracle User Group on Thursday, October 1 at 13:00h, about the Migration to Oracle Multitenant.

Registration: https://soug.ch/soug-day-september-21st-2020/
Date / Time:

KSAOUG – EMEA Groundbreakers – Database Patching – Welcome to the Jungle

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Sorry … posted by accident in the wrong category – this is the correct blog post:

User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching

–Mike…

LAOUC Web Seminar: Oracle Multitenant – 3 PDBs and many secrets

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

Just a few hours left until I’ll start my LAOUC Web Seminar: Oracle Multitenant – 3 PDBs and many secrets today, Aug 17, 2020. I’m really looking forward to it even though it is a bit sad this time. Usually in the past years I was traveling to Latin America. And I enjoyed the intense discussions in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil a lot. The local folks invest so much time in these yearly user group conferences. Hence, as for most other events as well, this year you’ll be able to participate virtually over multiple days.

LAOUC Web Seminar: Oracle Multitenant - 3 PDBs and many secrets

Oracle Multitenant – 3 PDBs

Web Seminar MEA – Recap, Slides, Recording and Answers

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

A few weeks ago, on June 29, 2020, I delivered an Upgrade Web Seminar for the MEA region. Thanks a lot if your participated. And today I’d like to share with you for this Web Seminar MEA – Recap, Slides, Recording and Answers.

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Recap

Thanks to those who found the time to participate. I enjoyed the hour a lot. And thanks also to my colleagues from Oracle Dubai who set up the session and handled the registration and the logistics.

Slides

You can download the slides for this session as usual from the Slides …

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Upgrades (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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Everything you need to know about Upgrade, Migration and Consolidation

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