2016

UKOUG TECH 16 is coming – and I’m speaking

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Uhhh … time flies. I look into my calendar – and UKOUG TECH 16 Conference is almost there. Just a few days to go (and hopefully no Lufthansa strike on the upcoming weekend – but I looked already for alternatives). Anyhow, I’m excited and look forward to my 2nd TECH conference. Last year was the first time for me and I enjoyed it a lot. Very good audience, good location – even though I can’t say much about the city of Birmingham as I haven’t seen anything except for the venue, my hotel and an Indian restaurant. Well, …

Lufthansa – 14th pilot strike in 2 years – lovely :-(

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 2

I don’t blame anybody. Really, I don’t.

But nevertheless this is awkward.

Bodenhansa - Lufthansa
Source: Facebook – https://scontent.fmuc2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15193604_10210663792047910_5774221704440071551_n.jpg?oh=99f7242c9283bf664db779354d594b3b&oe=58B51EA1

I’ve got affected by the most recent – the 14th (!!!) in two years – strike of the Lufthansa pilots. And not for the first time. I’ve had my share of strike experience already quite often in the past years with my main airline carrier.

Last week I had a hard time to reschedule my flight to Brussels, and I’ve got stuck in the Netherlands the other day as the workers union VC who’s taking care on the belongings of estimated 5400 Lufthansa …

SANGAM and DOAG Conferences 2016 – Recap + Slides

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Slides Workshop 0

The past weeks were very intense. I’ve been to Japan for customer meetings and a Dev Day and an internal workshop, then on to China for an internal training, then to India for SANGAM conference and afterwards to Nürnberg for DOAG, the German Oracle User’s Group conference. And UKOUG is just in two weeks …

You’ll find the slides of my talks here:

and in the Slides Download Center.

Thanks again to the organizers of SANGAM and DOAG for such i…

Database Upgrade Workshops in Brussels and Utrecht

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

On November 24 and 25 I’ll give two full-day Upgrade / Migrate / Consolidate to Oracle Database 12.2 and the Oracle Cloud workshops in Brussels and Utrecht. If you want to grab a seat please hurry as I’ve got informed that only a few seats are left.

Please use the registration links:

Both workshops will happen in the Oracle offices. You’ll get the address from the above links as well.

Looking forward to see you there 🙂

–Mike…

October 2016 Proactive BP got replaced

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 0

Just received a message from Oracle Support this early morning as I did install the Proactive Bundle Patch from October 2016 into my Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 environment saying:

Dear Oracle Customer,

You are receiving this email because our recordsindicate you downloaded the following patch:

Patch number: 24448103
Release: DB Proactive Bundle 12.1.0.2.161018
Platform: Linux x86-64

This patch has been replaced and is now available for download. Please review section 1.1 of the
following My Oracle Support note for further technical details and instructions:

Note: 2171506.1 – Oracle Database Proactive Patch 12.1.0.2.161018 Known Issues

Issue found:

SCAN Listener or local listener

October 2016 PSU and BP – Database Patching?

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 6

What will you get when you download the most recent Oracle Database PSU or BP from October 2016?

MOS Note: 1683799.1 – 12.1.0.2 Patch Set – Availability and Known Issues is not entirely clear. Therefore lets shed some light …

The Matrix

This matrix in MOS Note: 1683799.1 tells you about the availability of PSUs and BPs for a regular database installation (non-RAC, non-Exadata). But it doesn’t clearly tell you what’s included – and the names being used aren’t very revealing either.

Non Exadata Non RAC

Document Description Rolling RAC Patch Download

Note:24448103.8 12.1.0.2.161018 Database Proactive Bundle Patch

OOW 2016: Slides and HOL Download

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

Sorry for any delay but Roy and I promised to make our OOW 2016 slides available right after the talks. And some people were asking already where they are.

For internal people you’ll find them via the usual sources on database.us.

But customers will have to wait until Oracle Database 12.2 is available in the Cloud as it got announced at OOW during the keynotes.

What you can get right now:

How to Ensure Performance Stability when Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c,
our Thursday OOW16 talk. I had to mask the Oracle 12.2 information but the presentation should be

Oracle Open World 2016 – Recommended Customer Talks

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 2

At OOW 2016 there are some customer talks from customers we worked with or at least were involved in their project plans. We highly recommend the talks below.

British Telecom has such an ambitious upgrade and migration project for really MANY databases. I’m looking forward to David’s talk. We met at UKOUG TECH15 and I promise it will be a very interesting insight presentation.

Migrating Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases to Oracle Multitenant [CON2718]
- David Hickson, Database Administrator, British Telecom
- Thursday, Sep 22, 1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Park Central – Franciscan I
- Since April 2015, BT

Oracle Open World 2016 – Upgrade Talks / HOL

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 2

Just a few weeks until Oracle Open World 2016 Conference will kick off. September 18-22, 2016 in San Francisco.

For us it is usually the most busiest week of the year. But also a great experience every year with so many good discussions and meetings. It’s very intense.

Since a few hours the OOW16 Session Catalog is online with the schedule (but it still misses the rooms).

This is the list of our talks and HOL sessions:

Upgrade and Migrate to Oracle Database 12c: Live and Uncensored! [CON6068]
- Monday, Sep 19, 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Moscone

OTN Tour LAD – Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 1

OTN Tour Latin America 2016 is ready to take off

And for me it’s the first time in 4 years that I won’t be able to participate. Which is very sad as it is such a great thing to meet all these wonderful people, not only from the User Groups doing all the orga stuff but also discussing with customers, learning from skilled and knowledgeable co-presenters, the entire travel, the wonderful cities … I miss this already. Maybe next year …

Nevertheless, the Database Upgrade team will present – and thanks to the tour organizers for accepting the talks of …

July 2016 – Proactive BPs and PSUs are available

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 9

Last night the July 2016 patches got released

Not all of them actually. In case you miss AIX, Intel Solaris and zLinux versions those should be available by Friday, July 22, 2016.

See the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory July 2016 for further details, and especially the Database announcement on MOS.

What’s new, what’s important?

First of all the renaming of DBIM and Exadata Bundle Patches into PROACTIVE BUNDLE PATCHES is now settled in more MOS notes.

2.1 Database patch for Engineered Systems and Database In-Memory 12.1.0.2 renamed to “Proactive Bundle Patch 12.1.0.2”

Starting from Apr2016 onwards the prior

Silence for some weeks?

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 0

You may wonder why I haven’t posted many things in the past weeks. Or why I haven’t replied to your comments yet. The few posts were pre-written – and I took off for a few weeks and traveled on the West Coast of the US from San Francisco towards the north.

So while I’m writing new content and answering your comments and building up a new hands-on lab for our upcoming workshops let me share some pictures with you – fully off-topic of course 🙂

Plenty of clouds in Northern California

Coast north of SF

Redwood NP

Orgeon

Mnt Hood

Recap – OTN Tour EMEA – Baku, Azerbaijan – 2016

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Slides Workshop 3

Working on a Saturday is not common for me but happens from time to time mostly when I travel abroad or when a customer has a critical upgrade or migration on a weekend.

Having 120 skilled and enthusiastic people in a conference day on a Saturday is VERY UNCOMMON. And having them stay from 9am to 6pm is a sign that the selection of topics fit the interest of the audience – and the presenters got their attention the entire day.

Please find the slides and the Hands-On-Lab here:

Recap – OTN Tour EMEA – Milano, Italy – 2016

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Slides Workshop 0

Milano Centrale - OTN Tour EMEA 2016

Thanks for this excellent day yesterday in Milano for the OTN EMEA Tour 2016. What a great audience, excellent speakers covering a broad spectrum – and also a perfect organization.

In case you need the slides please find them here (or many more including the Hands-On-Lab) in the Slides Download Center to your right (scroll down a bit):

I’m looking forward to Baku, Azerbaijan now – but I hope as well that the Italian User Group will stay now more …

OTN Tour EMEA 2016 – Milan and Baku

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Time to travel a bit.

OTN Tour EMEA 2016 has started yesterday in Düsseldorf, and tomorrow, May 12, Milan will be on the route.

Then on to Baku, Azerbaijan for the event on Saturday, May 14.

First time for me. And I’m so looking forward to it.

For Baku you will need to hurry as only 20 tickets are left.

Thanks to all the people like Ludovico Caldara and Kamran Agayev and all the others for their hard work setting ip those events.

And I look forward to see you and learn a lot from the Oracle ACE …

Collaborate16 – See you on Monday!

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Time flies.

I already started packing stuff for COLLABORATE16 – and I hope to see you in Las Vegas from April 10-14, 2016 🙂

These are the sessions I’ll present:

Monday, Apr 11, 2016 – 9:15am – 10:15am
Hands-On-Lab: Upgrade and Migrate Your Oracle Database
Location: South Seas Ballromm D
*** Don’t forget to bring your laptop!!! ***
Monday, Apr 11, 2016 – 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Hands-On-Lab: Upgrade and Migrate Your Oracle Database
Location: South Seas Ballromm D
*** Don’t forget to bring your laptop!!! ***
Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 – 8:30am – 9:30am
How to Upgrade

Collaborate16 – See you soon!!!

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 1

If you haven’t signed up for COLLABORATE16 yet, then please do so 🙂

And I hope to meet you and many other Oracle experts in Las Vegas from April 10-14, 2016.

If you plan to attend one of our sessions mark them down in your conference scheduler:

Monday, Apr 11, 2016 – 9:15am – 10:15am
Hands-On-Lab: Upgrade and Migrate Your Oracle Database
Location: South Seas Ballromm D
Don’t forget to bring your laptop!!!
Monday, Apr 11, 2016 – 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Hands-On-Lab: Upgrade and Migrate Your Oracle Database
Location: South Seas Ballromm D
Don’t forget to bring

Upgrade Workshop on March 2, 2016 in Switzerland

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Grüezi alle miteinand!

There are just a few seats open for the Upgrade / Migrate /Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c workshop on March 2, 2016 in Zürich in Switzerland open. If you would like to attend but haven’t registered yet, please use this link to sign up:

Upgrade / Migrate / Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c
on March 2, 2016 in Zürich / Switzerland at Swisscom (Schweiz) AG, Binzring 17, 8045 Zürich

Workshop language will be German, slides will be in English.

Looking forward to meet you there!

–Mike…

2016

UKOUG TECH 16 is coming – and I’m speaking

Lufthansa – 14th pilot strike in 2 years – lovely :-(

SANGAM and DOAG Conferences 2016 – Recap + Slides

Database Upgrade Workshops in Brussels and Utrecht

October 2016 Proactive BP got replaced

Issue found:

October 2016 PSU and BP – Database Patching?

The Matrix

OOW 2016: Slides and HOL Download

Oracle Open World 2016 – Recommended Customer Talks

Oracle Open World 2016 – Upgrade Talks / HOL

OTN Tour LAD – Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala

OTN Tour Latin America 2016 is ready to take off

July 2016 – Proactive BPs and PSUs are available

Last night the July 2016 patches got released

What’s new, what’s important?

2.1 Database patch for Engineered Systems and Database In-Memory 12.1.0.2 renamed to “Proactive Bundle Patch 12.1.0.2”

Silence for some weeks?

Recap – OTN Tour EMEA – Baku, Azerbaijan – 2016

Recap – OTN Tour EMEA – Milano, Italy – 2016

OTN Tour EMEA 2016 – Milan and Baku

Collaborate16 – See you on Monday!

Collaborate16 – See you soon!!!

Upgrade Workshop on March 2, 2016 in Switzerland

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