Compression

Ouch, this hurts: bug 21923026 – patch Oracle 12c Home before upgrading if you have OLTP Compression in 11g

Patch

Actually I’d consider this as a real serious issue which may affect many customers with larger deployments using the Advanced Compression Option’s OLTP Compression.

I came across it as Don Seiler full of anger twittered some bad words about Oracle Database 12.1.0.2.. We’ve exchanged a good number of emails – and I could see the issues Don and his colleagues got while assisting a customer to go live on Oracle Database 12c.

The most interesting one happened on the physical standby after the primary got upgraded. The MRP failed with an ORA-600.

Issue

After upgrading from Oracle 11.2.0.3 to …

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