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Pitfall: ORA-1843 – NOT A VALID MONTH in Oracle 19.4 – 19.8

Today, I’d like to write about a tiny little issue – which can cause some real trouble in Oracle 19c. This blog post is about the Pitfall: ORA-1843 – NOT A VALID MONTH in Oracle 19.4 – 19.8.

The Testcase

My testcase is super-simple – and you can reproduce it even without any object in 2 seconds (one for “copy“, the other for “paste“). Simply execute this query:

select to_date('20191120','RRMMDD') from dual;

Or this one where I replace “RR” with the more common “YY”:

select to_date('20191120','YYMMDD') from dual;
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Oracle Database In-Memory BASE_LEVEL Feature available since 19.8.0

These are absolutely exciting news. I found this email from our PM for Oracle In-Memory, Andy Rivenes, in my inbox this morning. Andy explained that with the database Release Update 19.8.0 the In-Memory BASE_LEVEL feature is now available. And you don’t have to purchase an extra license for it.

What is Oracle In-Memory?

So many things have been written and published about the In-Memory option. I’d rather link to this White Paper here (Oracle Database In-Memory with Oracle 19c) and put some additional links at the end of the blog post.

What is Oracle

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AutoUpgrade – New Version with RAC Database Upgrade Support

Thanks to all our customers who participated in our evaluation test for RAC upgrade support with the AutoUpgrade Tool. And my colleagues worked hard to deliver the new version as quickly as possible. Just to make sure: This is not an April’s fools blog post. Since 2 days, you can download AutoUpgrade – New Version with RAC Database Upgrade Support.

AutoUpgrade - New Version with RAC Database Upgrade Support

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Where to download it?

As usual, you can download the newest version – in this case 19.8 aka 20200327 from MOS Note: 2485457.1:

You simply copy the new version into your 19c (or …

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