18.2.0

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

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

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