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What does datapatch do when you have different components in PDBs?

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 10

The last weeks, literally weeks, I have spent a lot of time with several patching topics. And in order to clean up my inbox a bit I will dump the learning into several blog posts. This one today will be about an interesting case I came across when a customer ran into problems with the runtime of datapatch in an ExaCC environment. Hence, today’s topic will be: What does datapatch do when you have different components in PDBs?

What does datapatch do when you have different components in PDBs?

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If you are on 19.16.0 or higher, than you can safely ignore this blog post …

How long will my database upgrade take? Revisited …

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Best Practice 6

I received this question twice within a few days. And I remember that a tiny little while ago I wrote something on the blog about it. But as this “while” is 11 years ago, I came to conclusion to refresh this topic – and write something about How long will my database upgrade take? Revisited …

How long will my database upgrade take? Revisited ...

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Is there a query?

At first, before I go into details, an important fact upfront: There is neither any query nor any tool giving you a rough estimate or precise figure of how long your upgrade will …

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Migration with Data Pump

You may have realized that there are a few techniques missing describing how to do a Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Migration with Data Pump is one of them. I will explain the most simple approach of going to Single- or Multitenant. It isn’t the coolest – and it isn’t very fast as soon as your database has a significant size. But it is not complex. And it allows you to move even from very old versions directly into an Oracle 19c PDB – regardless of patch levels or source and destination platform.

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Migration with Data Pump

High Level Overview

Endianness change

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Various Pitfalls

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Flaws and Pitfalls Single-/Multitenant 22

There are several pitfalls when you plugin a non-CDB into a CDB environment. I’d like to highlight some of them – and show you potential workarounds as well. This is part of a series of blog posts to make your migration from non-CDB to PDB a bit smoother.

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Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Various Pitfalls

In all the previous blog posts of this series I tried to explain specific pitfalls, and how you can workaround them. This article is meant to collect the “leftovers”, the minor issues and pitfalls which you may not …

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Patch Level Pitfall

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Flaws and Pitfalls Single-/Multitenant 0

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Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Patch Level Pitfall

When you consolidate on a larger scale, it is very likely that you have different patch levels in your database environments. But when you attempt to plugin a non-CDB into a CDB, you may see …

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Component Pitfall

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Flaws and Pitfalls Single-/Multitenant 7

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The Component Pitfall

With component we mean the database component which you can find in DBA_REGISTRY – or CDB_REGISTRY. When Multitenant became available over 5 years ago, a decision had been made to make all options/components mandatory in a container database. This decision had to …

Be aware of database options selections for PDBs in DBCA

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Single-/Multitenant 6

I did blog about several things-to-know with DBCA (Database Configuration Assistant) in the past. And one issue came up in our internal mailing list the other day. Be aware of database options selections for PDBs in DBCA. Missing one or the other “click” may bring you in trouble later on. I blogged about this already a while ago but this was only part of a larger post: Create Multitenant Databases with DBCA – Things to Know.

Be aware of database options selections for PDBs in DBCA

When you create a custom container database with DBCA you will see this …

Create Multitenant databases with DBCA – Things to Know

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich DBCA Single-/Multitenant 2

When you create Multitenant databases with DBCA there are some Things to Know. And in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1’s Database Creation Assistant (DBCA) there is a common pitfall in the “Options” screen. It was grayed out in the previous release but when you choose to create a “custom” database you can select the options/components now. Be careful …

I did blog several times about the DBCA already:

And …

Remove and Clean Up Components from Oracle Database 11.2 – 19c

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Removal 28

Remove and Clean Up Components - Oracle 11.2 - 12.2

I will start a series of blog posts on how to remove and clean up components from Oracle Database 11.2 – 19c.

Precaution

This series of blog posts is not meant to recommend the removal of any options from an Oracle Database. It is not meant to create any sort of negativeness on any of the components or options. It’s is only meant to give you some advice and guideline in the case you’ll need to remove something.

The OUI (Oracle Universal Installer) installed everything on disk – and there’s a very good reason to do this. The purpose of …

Install components in Multitenant ALWAYS with catcon.pl

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Single-/Multitenant 11

I did blog several times about how to remove an unwanted component from a database. But yesterday I came across this interesting scenario worth a blog post.

Upfront information – 2026

Dear Reader,

this blog post is from 2017 when Multitenant was relatively new, and when not all tools were really comfortably aligned yet.

Nowadays, almost 10 years later, I typically use DBCA to add missing options to PDBs. Since I wrote this blog post in 2017, I actually did not use a manual method anymore. And I did not verify the procedures again due to time constraints.

My …

Create Container Databases (CDB) with less options – it’s now supported in Oracle 12.1.0.2

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Single-/Multitenant 22

When Oracle Multitenant was launched Roy and I amongst many other people always mentioned that the requirement of having all options in a Container Database (CDB$ROOT), and therefore also for the PDB$SEED with the immediate result that all PDBs provisioned from the PDB$SEED will have all options as well, will hinder customer adoption significantly. But this has been changed now. You can create Container Databases (CDB) with less options – it’s now supported in Oracle 12.1.0.2.

Create Container Databases (CDB) with less options – it’s now supported in Oracle 12.1.0.2

Almost all customers I have talked to in the …

Rules Manager and Expression Filter getting removed

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Mike.Dietrich Removal 1

I doubt that many people are using the Oracle features “Rules Manager” and “Expression Filter” as usually people handle these things (such as ensuring that a zip code or a car number plate has a certain format) within the application code and not inside the database. Oracle Beehive for instance uses that just on the side.

Anyway, just learned today that Rules Manager and Expression Filter components will get removed once our next database release most likely called Oracle Database 12c will get released. So before upgrading to Oracle Database 12c you can remove EXF and …

Database Registry: Component Dependencies

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Mike.Dietrich Removal 4

Recently I had to dig a bit into the component dependency topic as I was working with an Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 customer planning to upgrade to Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 with a limited downtime window. To achieve the given downtime window we planned to remove some unused components from the database.

Database Component Dependencies
Example: Component Dependencies in Oracle Database 11.1

As you know already the time it’ll take to upgrade an Oracle database is mainly dependent on the number of installed components. If you’ll query DBA_REGISTRY (or the underlying REGISTRY$) you’ll spot all the installed (and usually configured) database components. And the …

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What does datapatch do when you have different components in PDBs?

Annotation

How long will my database upgrade take? Revisited …

Is there a query?

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Migration with Data Pump

High Level Overview

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Various Pitfalls

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Various Pitfalls

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Patch Level Pitfall

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Patch Level Pitfall

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Component Pitfall

The Component Pitfall

Be aware of database options selections for PDBs in DBCA

Be aware of database options selections for PDBs in DBCA

Create Multitenant databases with DBCA – Things to Know

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Remove and Clean Up Components from Oracle Database 11.2 – 19c

Precaution

Install components in Multitenant ALWAYS with catcon.pl

Upfront information – 2026

Create Container Databases (CDB) with less options – it’s now supported in Oracle 12.1.0.2

Create Container Databases (CDB) with less options – it’s now supported in Oracle 12.1.0.2

Rules Manager and Expression Filter getting removed

Database Registry: Component Dependencies

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