Best Practices

Virtual Classroom Seminar 16: Release and Patching Strategy for Oracle 19c and 23c

There are just two days left to sign up for our Virtual Classroom Seminar 16: Release and Patching Strategy for Oracle 19c and 23c. We’ll talk to you on Wednesday, May 10 at 16:00h CET.

What’s the topic?

We’ll try to cover everything for your best release and patching strategy with Oracle Database 19c of course, but also moving forward to Oracle Database 23c. Our big focus will be several aspects of patching. You’ll hear us talking not only about standard database patching but especially about patching in RAC environments.

We’ll put together a …

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Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 – 10am PST

Tomorrow we’ll start our new Virtual Classroom Web Seminar Series, this time for the Americas in a convenient 10am – noon Pacific Time zone. So this is your final change to Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 – 10am PST.

Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 - 10am PST

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Why you want to participate?

Roy, Daniel and I will kick of this series with the Episode 1: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices for a reason. We get a ton of question regarding both topics every day. Everybody wants to know about …

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Patching Best Practices – 38min Video

Patch Ever asked yourself about Database Patching Best Practices?

I know that not always everything works that simple and easy. See the blog post by Pieter Van Puymbroeck from Exitas in Belgium about some findings when applying the April 2015 PSU to an Exadata or by myself about my experiences when applying the GI PSU from Jan 2015.

But this 38 min video may give you a good overview about the best and recommended techniques at first hand by Eleanor Meritt and David Price, both from the Sustaining Engineering organization that issues bug fixes, patches and patchset updates

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