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Quick fix for download issues with AutoUpgrade 26.6

Posted on October 6, 2026 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 2

As you may have read, we launched the new AutoUpgrade 26.6 a week ago which has so many amazing enhancements such as the EM Patches download. But there may be two other hurdles to jump over, and one of them may prevent you from downloading patches. Let me share a quick fix for download issues with AutoUpgrade 26.6

Quick fix for download issues with AutoUpgrade 26.6

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Weak file permissions will prevent download

I have been trapped by this as well.

A change was required by the platforms we are downloading from. With AutoUpgrade 26.6 we had to enable a new keystore …

Patching recommendations: Which route is the best? RUs, MRPs, n-1??

Be aware, this is a longer Monday blog post. Upfront, I am not the master of patching. And I clearly see that many of you struggle with the current situation. Not only regarding Oracle software but I guess, this extends to almost every software or OS. Since I get asked almost daily about the ideal approach, and since we discuss these topics internally across the tech teams as well, I thought I would share here my personal Patching recommendations: Which route is the best? RUs, MRPs, n-1??

Patching recommendations: Which route is the best? RUs, MRPs, n-1??

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Prelude

Two important things I’d like to …

AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 2: MOS Credentials

Posted on July 7, 2026 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade Patch Recommendation 13

In this blog post series AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 2: MOS Credentials will be our topic for today. If you are tired of going through MOS notes over and over again to identify the most important fixes and fetch them, you need to automate it. But in order to automate the download, you need to infuse your MOS credentials into the AutoUpgrade keystore. Let’s do this together now.

AutoUpgrade Patching - From Zero to Hero - Part 2: MOS Credentials

Create directories

Before we really start, you should define a few directories at first. In my case, I copied the newest version of AutoUpgrade into /Users/mdietric/TEMP/AU. …

DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport in Oracle Database 23c

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade DBUA Deprecated / Desupported 16

Daniel pointed me to Tim Hall’s blog post about deprecated and desupported features in Oracle Database 23c. And his first bullet point mentioned is the DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport in Oracle Database 23c. Since Daniel and I agree that this needs a bit more explanation, we would like to share more background information with you.

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Deprecated vs Desupport?

At first, let me refresh an old topic. What does deprecated mean, and what is the difference to desupport? A long while ago I wrote this blog post about it, and nothing …

Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Installation Patch Recommendation 33

Some of you may remember my blog post from April 22, 2021 about issues I saw with the unattended installation using applyRU and applyOneOffs switches. The installation failed with a strange jox error when I passed on the OJVM bundle to my installation queue. But there is relief – finally, after almost one year. So let me give you some background, and of course show you the workaround for the Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs.

Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs

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What has happened?

A longer while ago, we introduced the very convenient ability to install patches …

We are hiring … Developers and a Product Manager

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Job Offering 0

Our team is growing – not only the Upgrade team but also the Data Pump team. And we have a challenging new project where we search developers for. So yes, We are hiring … Developers and a Product Manager.

We are hiring ... Developers and a Product Manager

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Software Developer – Cloud Migration Analyzer

At first, we are looking mostly for skilled developers. We have a new challenging and interesting project which our VP, Roy Swonger, owns. And there we look at first for developers with either very good APEX skills but also database knowledge or people who are good in programming …

AutoUpgrade 2.0 has been released – and got reuploaded

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 42

Many of you have used AutoUpgrade for your database upgrades already. Just a few days ago I received some almost enthusiastic comments which made me very very happy. And if you thought it can’t get any better, no worries: AutoUpgrade 2.0 has been released – and got reuploaded.

AutoUpgrade 2.0 has been released - and got reuploaded

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Why AutoUpgrade 2.0?

As you know, we don’t do marketing but just talk tech. But you may have also recognized that we slowed down in our agile release cycle for AutoUpgrade. The simple reason for this long period of silence was that we’ve had a …

AutoUpgrade – New Version with RAC Database Upgrade Support

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich ASM / RAC / GI AutoUpgrade 32

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 …

January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 34

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:

MOS Note: 2485457.1 – AutoUpgrade Tool

January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

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Quick fix for download issues with AutoUpgrade 26.6

Weak file permissions will prevent download

Patching recommendations: Which route is the best? RUs, MRPs, n-1??

Prelude

AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 2: MOS Credentials

Create directories

Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs

What has happened?

AutoUpgrade 2.0 has been released – and got reuploaded

Why AutoUpgrade 2.0?

AutoUpgrade – New Version with RAC Database Upgrade Support

Where to download it?

January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

Download 20191220 AutoUpgrade

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