Deprecation

DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport in Oracle Database 23c

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade DBUA Deprecated / Desupported 14

Daniel pointed me to Tim Hall’s blog post about deprecated and desupported features in Oracle Database 23c. And his first bullet point mentioned is the DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport in Oracle Database 23c. Since Daniel and I agree that this needs a bit more explanation, we would like to share more background information with you.

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Deprecated vs Desupport?

At first, let me refresh an old topic. What does deprecated mean, and what is the difference to desupport? A long while ago I wrote this blog post about it, and nothing …

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Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Restart - SIHA - HAS 4

Very good news for all customers using Oracle RESTART:
The Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn.

I have blogged in the past several times about Oracle RESTART of course either regarding upgrade, downgrade and patching:

And one of the customers I work with for quite a while, Swiss Mobiliar Insurance uses Oracle RESTART for all their Oracle Database environments:

Customer Success: Swiss Mobiliar Insurance

The question all customers I deal with who use Oracle RESTART: How long will Oracle support it? And will there be a successor …

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