18.1.0

Patching my databases with the July 2018 PSU, BP and RU

Patching my databases with the July 2018 PSU, BP and RUAs usual I download the patch bundles  and apply them to our Hands-On Lab environment as quickly as possible. First of all for the simple reason that I don’t want to trap into issues which are fixed already. Second for the reason that I always tell you: YOU MUST PATCH! But if I’m saying this over and over again, then I can’t have my own environments unpatched. And at third, because I want to learn if anything is not working correctly or has changed (see below).

Of course my tiny single instance environments are not comparable to your critical production …

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Patching Oracle Database 18.1.0 to 18.2.0 on premises

In this part of my blog post series about upgrading from Oracle 12.2.0.1 to Oracle 18c I’d like to demonstrate patching Oracle Database 18.1.0 to 18.2.0 on premises.Patching Oracle Database 18.1.0 to 18.2.0 on premises

A while ago I showed also how to patch from Oracle 18.1.0 to 18.2.0 in the Oracle Cloud.

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Patching Oracle Database 18.1.0 to 18.2.0 on premises

Before I can start patching to the Release Update Oracle 18.2.0 I need to download the patch …

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

Unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and plugin into 18c in the CloudThere’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 …

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