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January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

All of you upgrading your databases with AutoUpgrade or planning to do so can now download the newest version of our AutoUpgrade tool. We are offering the 20191220 version. If you ask yourself why we release the December version in January 2020, there’s a simple answer. We do extensive system testing with it before releasing it to the public.

January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

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Download 20191220 AutoUpgrade

You can always download the newest and some previous versions of the AutoUpgrade tool via this note:

January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

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AutoUpgrade: ANALYZE, FIXUPS, UPGRADE and DEPLOY modes

AutoUpgrade: ANALYZE, FIXUPS, UPGRADE and DEPLOY modes

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In the previous blog posts I explained mainly how to create, alter and tweak the configuration file for the AutoUpgrade tool. By now you should have your config file set up and adjusted for your environment(s). Let me go a step further and explain the different processing modes of AutoUpgrade: ANALYZE, FIXUPS, UPGRADE and DEPLOY modes. Then you’ll have a precise idea what the tool is actually doing, and how it operates.

AutoUpgrade – Step-by-step

  1. The new AutoUpgrade Utility – Download, documentation and supported versions
  2. Create and adjust the config file for
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Config file for AutoUpgrade – Tweaking init parameters

In the previous blog posts I explained how to generate a sample config file for the AutoUpgrade tool and how to adjust it. Then I gave you an overview about the most important Advanced Options you may want or need to deal with when using the utility. And in the below blog post I would like to show you have you need to edit the Config file for AutoUpgrade – Tweaking init parameters is an important topic.

This is the forth post of a series of blog posts regarding the new AutoUpgrade tool. Please find all the other available …

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Automatic Maintenance Jobs are enabled after upgrade

This is a strange behavior – but it seems as automatic maintenance jobs are enabled after upgrade. A customer (thanks Naveen!!) sent me an email the other week asking if there’s a flag in DBUA to prevent this enabling as on some of their databases the automatic maintenance jobs are disabled on purpose.

Automatic Maintenance Jobs are enabled after upgrade

It sounded kind of strange to me – and my first test was to use the catctl.pl instead of the DBUA.

First of all I did check the status of the Automatic Maintenance Jobs in my 11.2.0.4 database:

SELECT client_name, 
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