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AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 1: Download AutoUpgrade

I was traveling the past two weeks, and I met a lot of customers who still “enjoy” navigating through MOS and searching for the right patches to download. This blog post series will give you ultimate relief, and it will ease your life as DBAs and sysadmins. You must patch more frequently – and this is the key solution for everyone. Let’s get us started with AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 1: Download AutoUpgrade today.

AutoUpgrade Patching - From Zero to Hero - Part 1

Download the newest version of AutoUpgrade

Our first task is simple. You will find autoupgrade.jar in your ?/rdbms/admin directory since Oracle …

Sign up for the next Virtual Classroom Seminar: Patch Smarter, Not Harder

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

Some of you may have realized: We moved the Virtual Classroom Seminar #27 from its original date in February to March 12 this week. Usually we don’t do this – but we ended up with so much content. If you haven’t already, it is time for you to sign up for the next Virtual Classroom Seminar: Patch Smarter, Not Harder.

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What are we going to talk about?

Database Patching – with or without RAC or Data Guard. With demos, as usual.

The idea is that you may learn a lot. And of course, …

AutoUpgrade patching – getting started with Connor McDonald

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade Patch Recommendation 22

AIOUG OC Yatra 2025 is over, and I somehow recovered as well. As I wrote here, it was (again) an incredible experience with all those wonderful people (you!!) and those crazy speakers (us!) – and I learned a lot again. Still, I had no clue that Database and Developer evangelist and video wizard Connor McDonald would react to my friendly nagging 🙂

AutoUpgrade patching - getting started with Connor McDonald

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Have you used AutoUpgrade before?

If you say “No, not really“, then this video is for you. See how Connor dives into AutoUpgrade which he had never used before.…

People do super-cool stuff … AutoUpgrade Composer

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 2

I am jealous, and so happy. There are so happy about the fact that we have such skilled minds in the industry. One of them is Marcus Vinicius, an Oracle ACE Pro from Brazil who lives in Dallas, TX in the US. And besides being a real wizard he is also a super-nice guy. No idea where all these Brazilian Oracle experts “grow” but I am very proud to have two of the best in the world in our team. But back to Marcus. People do super-cool stuff … AutoUpgrade Composer is something Marcus put out in the wild.

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Different handling of UNLIMITED QUOTA when you revoke the DBA role between 11.2.0.4 and future releases

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich Behavior Change Oracle Database 11g Oracle Database 19c 5

“Oh heck” you may think. “Why is he blogging about 11.2.0.4?”. But as a matter of fact, I work right now with a customer in Germany where we try to lift a fairly large database into Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S). And as I love to learn new things every day but (as most of us) have just limited brain capacity, I prefer to put things on the blog. Only challenge as Klaus from our team demonstrated to me yesterday: I need to remember that I wrote something about it. Anyhow, since we still have a number of customers on Oracle …

DOAG 2023 Conference – our talks this year

Posted on November 16, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich Conference 2

Time flies so quickly – and I guess I wrote this phrase already plenty of times on the blog. It is already November, and just a few weeks until Christmas. And this year, DOAG conference in Nuernberg is again in November – which means: next week. So, let me give you a quick overview for DOAG 2023 Conference – our talks this year.

DOAG 2023 Conference - our talks this year

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When, who, where?

At first, DOAG 2023 will happen from November 21-24, 2023 at the usual superb location in Nuernberg. You find all the details on the DOAG webpage. …

RUs contain now all available DST patches

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation Time Zone - DST 14

At first, Happy New Year everybody. There was silence on the blog for some weeks but I took an extended longer time off. Well, and once you return, there are some emails in your inbox which need some work. You’ll see several new blog posts getting published in the coming days. Back to normal, yesterday night RU 19.18.0 among other patch bundles has been released. And there’s a huge fantastic surprise in it: RUs contain now all available DST patches.

RUs contain now all available DST patches

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What’s the story?

There are some good news. We discussed this internally …

Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 – Quick Recap

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 12

Thanks to everyone attending our Cool Features – not only for DBAs web seminar yesterday on Jan 14, 2021. As over 500 attendees stayed until the end of the 2 hour long session with not less than 16 different features, we assume that you’ve enjoyed it. And from the questions you did ask, it looks like as some of the features really caught your attention. On Feb 10 it’s time for the next session for EMEA and India. But beforehand, let’s do a Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 – Quick Recap, especially regarding the questions you’ve had.

Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 - Quick Recap

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Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you are all well. After an heavily active 2020 with more virtual seminars than ever before it’s time to start in 2021 with Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7 on Jan 14, 2021.

Cool Features not only for DBAs - Virtual Classroom Series No.7

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Why Cool Features for DBAs?

Actually the idea is not new. And we’ve included some slides into our workshops already for quite a while. But there are simply too many cool features. Our focus is in features which usually don’t make it into advertising or …

3 Live Seminars: Slides Download and Questions Seminar 1 answered

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Thanks a lot to all of you who participated this week in the 3 live Seminars about Database Upgrade, Performance Stability and Multitenant. We were just overwhelmed but so many tuning in. And I hope you’ve enjoyed it. As promised here you’ll get more. So find here for all 3 Live Seminars: Slides Download and Questions Seminar 1 answered. Once the recordings are published, I will tell you via the blog of course as well.

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Thanks again also to Laura Garcia Villareal from Oracle University. If you have more questions regarding …

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AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 1: Download AutoUpgrade

Download the newest version of AutoUpgrade

Sign up for the next Virtual Classroom Seminar: Patch Smarter, Not Harder

What are we going to talk about?

AutoUpgrade patching – getting started with Connor McDonald

Have you used AutoUpgrade before?

People do super-cool stuff … AutoUpgrade Composer

Different handling of UNLIMITED QUOTA when you revoke the DBA role between 11.2.0.4 and future releases

DOAG 2023 Conference – our talks this year

When, who, where?

RUs contain now all available DST patches

What’s the story?

Cool Features Web Seminar Jan 2021 – Quick Recap

Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7

Why Cool Features for DBAs?

3 Live Seminars: Slides Download and Questions Seminar 1 answered

Slides Download

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