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DBUA Deprecation and future Desupport in Oracle Database 23c

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.

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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Recap: Support Periods for Oracle 11.2.0.4, on-prem and in the cloud

You may have recognized that I don’t update the blog as frequent as usual. But these times are very busy with plenty of conferences and many of our customers preparing for the move to 19c in the more quieter period of the year. And this is the right time to do a quick recap: Support Periods for Oracle 11.2.0.4, on-prem and in the cloud.

Recap: Support Period for Oracle 11.2.0.4, on-prem and in the cloud

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11.2.0.what?

Ah, well. Do you remember when Oracle Database 11.2.0.1 got released?

No worries, I’ve had to look it up by …

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Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog – DOHDATABASE.com

You may have realized that you will find mostly on-prem database upgrade and migration topics covered on my blog. Which doesn’t mean that you can’t use most of these techniques to migrate to the cloud either. But it’s really hard to write about everything in full detail. Hence, today I’d like to introduce you to Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog – DOHDATABASE.com. And no, I was never a fan of this American boyband from the 80s and 90s 😉

Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog - DOHDATABASE.com

Find Daniel’s blog at: https://dohdatabase.com

DOHDATABASE … huh?

Cloud Migrations: The New Kid on the Blog - DOHDATABASE.com

Daniel Overby Hansen

As you may have read a …

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Automatic SQL Plan Management – Slight Change with 19.4.0

I did blog in more detail about Automatic SQL Plan Management in Oracle 19c. And Roy and I had really a lot of discussion in every customer meeting at OOW19 about it. But there is a slight change to where the feature is available with Oracle 19.4.0.

Automatic SQL Plan Management - Slight Change with 19.4.0

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Slight Change

When you compare the settings of SQL Plan Management between Oracle 19.3 and 19.4, you’ll see the difference:

column parameter_value format a45
column parameter_name format a25
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SELECT PARAMETER_NAME, PARAMETER_VALUE
  FROM   DBA_ADVISOR_PARAMETERS
  WHERE  TASK_NAME = 'SYS_AUTO_SPM_EVOLVE_TASK'
    AND PARAMETER_VALUE <> 'UNUSED'
  ORDER 
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