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Oracle Database 21c for Windows is available as EE, SE2 and XE

Oracle Database 21c for Windows is available as EE, SE2 and XE now for download following the Linux version with a few weeks of delay.

Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2

Please find the download for Oracle Database 21c and Oracle Grid Infrastructure 21c for Windows here:

Express Edition

Regarding Oracle Database 21c XE, please see this blog post regarding the Linux version:

I just posted a few week ago.

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RMAN Catalog requires Enterprise Edition (EE)
since Oracle Database 12.1.0.2

Credits go to Cameron Hodge, Malcom and Martin Mäs who all highlighted issues to me following my previous entry about RMAN – and sorry for any disappointment but I wasn’t aware of all these nice little things.

Ok, you’d upgrade your RMAN Catalog to be ready to backup/recover Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 databases and you see this error:

RMAN>
upgrade catalog;
error creating create_deleted_object_seq
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database:
ORA-00439:  feature not enabled: Partitioning

Now you start to wonder as your Catalog Database had been an Oracle Standard

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