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Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Upgrade, plug in, convert

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Single-/Multitenant 4

As first blog post of this series about Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – Upgrade, plug in, convert I will explain the most straight forward approach of going to Single- or Multitenant. But you have other options as well. which I’ll showcase in the other blog posts. I demonstrated this technique on the blog already a while ago. But since Oracle 12.2.0.1, there are a few other options available.

Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB - Upgrade, plug in, convert

High Level Overview

Endianness change possible:	No
Source database versions:	Oracle 11.2.0.4 or newer
Characteristic:	Upgrade non-CDB first
Upgrade necessary:	Yes, before plugin
Downtime:	Upgrade, plugin, copy (optional) and

Oracle 18.3.0 Multitenant: Compatibility Check does not work

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Single-/Multitenant 7

Oracle 18.3.0 Multitenant: Compatibility Check does not work When I changed our Hands-On Lab to Oracle 18c, I encountered one strange issue in case I upgraded the UPGR database to 18.3.0 and wanted to plug it in afterwards. Before plugin I usually do a compatibility check. But this seems to fail. I checked my file, my paths, everything. But I couldn’t find the root cause. And yesterday I received an email from a customer who has a case open for over a week encountering a similar problem. And we both came to the conclusion for Oracle 18.3.0 Multitenant: Compatibility Check does not work under certain circumstances.…