If you’d ever attended one of Roy’s or my workshops, you know that we talk about time zone adjustments after the database upgrade. We explain why this is important. But as everything, it depends if you really need to apply and adjust. In our workshops we recommend one single note for time zone adjustments: MOS Note:412160.1 . This note has been updated and republished. It contains DST V.32 and DST V.33 links and references. Amit Grover from AWS contacted me and told me about a potential dependency of DST patches to the Oracle Update such as RU 18.4.0 or 18.5.0.…
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Oracle 18.4.0 installation on AIX may fail with ORA-40238
Oracle 18.4.0 for IBM AIX is available since mid November 2018. But I’ve received several emails from people saying that Oracle 18.4.0 installation on AIX may fail with ORA-40238. And it’s true, this can happen. But there’s a simple workaround which unfortunately is not in the documentation yet. We’ll take care that it will be added soon.
Oracle 18.4.0 installation on AIX may fail with ORA-40238
First of all, this is an error pattern you may see on IBM AIX only. You may receive the following error message either during installation or startup of ASM or any …
Continue reading...Oracle Database 18c for AIX, HP-UX and zLinux available
I rarely blog twice a day – but this message is the one a good number of people have waited for quite a while. Oracle Database 18c for AIX, HP-UX and zLinux available for download from eDelivery as of now. The software is not on OTN or oracle.com yet in the usual download section. I’m blindly guessing that it will be there soon, maybe tonight already.
Oracle Database 18c for AIX, HP-UX and zLinux available
→ Please go to eDelivery (also known as the Oracle Software Cloud) and type into the search line:
“Oracle Database” – then hit …
