2020

Upgrade Essentials – Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020

Roy, Daniel and I ran 6 workshops in our Virtual Classroom Series 2000 format. Each of them is between 90 and 120 minutes. This sounds quite long but of course you can scroll forward if you are interested in only a part of it. We consider those the Upgrade Essentials – Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020. As as we now completed the 6th web seminar, it’s time for a short recap.

Is Upgrade that complicated?

Good question. If upgrade is so easy as we say, why do you need 6 virtual sessions …

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Patching all my environments with the October 2020 Patch Bundles

I have to confess: Time didn’t allow to rearrange my lab yet to have GI and ASM. Hence, this will be another blog post about Patching all my environments with the October 2020 Patch Bundles with only non-RAC patching. But it is in the works …

As usual, an important annotation upfront: I patch in-place due to space issues. But in reality, you please patch always out-of-place with a separate home. Please see this blog post about how to apply the RU directly when you provision a new home with OUI.

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User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching

I didn’t blog a lot in the past weeks. At the moment, most of my time is consumed either by customer web meetings and workshops, or the preparation for the User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching. Below I will list these – please feel free to sign up. #SupportUserGroups

User Group Seminars in October about Upgrade, Migration and Patching

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October 1 – Swiss Oracle User Group

October will start for me with a keynote for the Swiss Oracle User Group on Thursday, October 1 at 13:00h, about the Migration to Oracle Multitenant.

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LAOUC Web Seminar: Oracle Multitenant – 3 PDBs and many secrets

Just a few hours left until I’ll start my LAOUC Web Seminar: Oracle Multitenant – 3 PDBs and many secrets today, Aug 17, 2020. I’m really looking forward to it even though it is a bit sad this time. Usually in the past years I was traveling to Latin America. And I enjoyed the intense discussions in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil a lot. The local folks invest so much time in these yearly user group conferences. Hence, as for most other events as well, this year you’ll be able to participate virtually over multiple days.

LAOUC Web Seminar: Oracle Multitenant - 3 PDBs and many secrets

Oracle Multitenant – 3 PDBs

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OOW London 2020 – Upgrade Talk and more

Since last year we organize regional Oracle Open World conferences. Not as big as the one in San Francisco (or in Las Vegas this and the following years), but still an exciting event. And for me, it will be the first time in a week to attend and speak at OOW London. Let me give you a very quick overview on our OOW London 2020 – Upgrade Talk and more.

OOW London 2020 - Upgrade Talk and more

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Upgrade Best Practices – Thursday, Feb 13 – 13:50-14:25h – Arena B – Zone 2

No idea who has cut down the tech …

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Happy New Year 2020!

Hi everybody,

let me start the new year 2020 (for techies: 11111100100) with a loud HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody!
I wish you all the best! Peace, health, fun, joy, love and whatever you desire. And of course, no ORA-600 or patching errors or wrong results 😉

Happy New Year 2020!

Picture kindly borrowed from my cousin Harald 🙂

Have a great start into 2020!

–Mike…

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