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OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Conference OOW 2

Will you come to Oracle Cloud World (tcfkaOOW = the conference formerly known as Oracle Open World) 2022 in Las Vegas in the week from October 17-20, 2022? Then we hope to see you there. And we certainly hope to meet you. So in case you are looking for our technical talks and sessions at OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success.

OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success

Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track at OCW2022

As usual our promise stands.

Zero marketing. Just pure tech.

And we our proud to have lots of real …

Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Database Upgrade and Patching Labs

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 2

Oh … it’s just a few weeks left until Oracle Cloud World 2022 will start on Oct 17, 2022 in Las Vegas. If you have some final doubts whether you should go or not, let me tell you that it’s like Oracle Open World just under a different name. And in a different place. But with the same cool people and many great talks. Take the chance to meet the developers, their managers and the product managers behind the features you daily use – or miss. We’ll be there – and this is YOUR chance now to sign up for …

The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab 0

Wow, this took a long while. Thanks to my team mate, Data Pump Product Manager Bill Beauregard who went through the complex approval process, the new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download. And in addition, I adjusted the instructions on the blog as well.

The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download

Photo by Kenrick Mills on Unsplash

What you’ll get …

At first, the download is huge. All together, you will download 13 files summing up to 25GB. When you unzip it, you will get an OVA file. Then you will need to import this appliance into Oracle VirtualBox. The lab will …

Oracle Open World 2019 – Recap and Thank You!

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

OOW 2019 has ended over one week ago – and I just wrote the date for OOW 2020 into my calendar: Oct 4, /2020 – Oct 8, 2020 – at least according to the events calendar of Moscone Center. But lets not talk about OOW20 but instead about my summary for Oracle Open World 2019 – Recap and Thank You!

Oracle Open World 2019 - Recap and Thank You!

Oracle Open World 2019 - Recap and Thank You! As usual, this was not a week to relax or hang out in all the nice places in San Francisco. OOW for me means usually a lot of stress. There are so many things we need to prepare. From …

OOW 2019 – Database Upgrade Talks and Labs

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

Oh … time flies so fast. Just a few days until I will sit in a airplane to SFO. And on Monday at 7:00h the registration opens. As we have a lab at 8:30h already, just remembering the loooooong lines around the block last year, I will need to be there very early. It’s just a few days until OOW 2019 – Database Upgrade Talks and Labs information is here.

OOW – Oracle Open World 2019 in San Francisco

OOW 2019 - Database Upgrade Talks and Labs

Photo by Robert McLay on Unsplash

When? September 16-19, 2019

Where? San Francisco, USA

What? Find the session catalog here…

The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab 8

Well, it’s been a while since we refreshed the lab being downloadable via this blog. But finally, the new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available – you can download it as of now.

What’s new in the lab?

First of all, the biggest change you’ll see is that the operating system is now Oracle Linux 7. Well, to be honest, I’m not a die-hard Linux expert and you may find my setup a bit creepy. Feel free to exchange things or adjust them – or drop me a message if you think that adjustments should be made. And of …

Hello, hello … Vienna Calling … AOUG 2019

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Conference 0

Hello, hello ... Vienna Calling ... AOUG 2019

When I think about Vienna, the Falco song “Vienna Calling” from 1985 is coming to my mind immediately. It was on “Falco 3“, the record which had “Jeanny” as third single – getting banned from Bavarian radio stations. Well, Bavaria is a bit more conservative than other places. Most people of course will remember “Rock Me Amadeus” from the same record. It made no.1 positions in the US, UK, USSR, Germany and many other countries. But why is a Falco song in my mind this morning? Very simple: This week the Austrian …

Collaborate 2019 – San Antonio, TX – Upgrade Talks and Labs

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Uncategorized 0

Collaborate 2019 - San Antonio, TX - Upgrade Talks and Labs

I have to be careful when posting something today. But this is actually not an April’s fool joke. Collaborate Conference is less than a week away. And for me this means: I’m going to Texas for the first time ever. And I hope to see you at Collaborate 2019 – San Antonio, TX – Upgrade Talks and Labs.

Texas?

Collaborate 2019 - San Antonio, TX - Upgrade Talks and Labs Well, stereotypes are great. I live in Bavaria but I’m actually from its Northern part called Franconia. Which belongs geographically to Bavaria but is different. But when you look from any other part of Germany towards its South, …

New Oracle Database Upgrade Lab for Oracle 18.3.0

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab 6

New Oracle Database Upgrade Lab for Oracle 18.3.0

Our new and updated Oracle Database Upgrade Hands-On Lab for Oracle 18.3.0 is finally live and can be downloaded via this link:

Download Database Upgrade 18.3.0 Hands-On Lab

What’s new?

Of course, Oracle 18.3.0 is inside to upgrade to. But we changed the entire instructions set a bit. We included a simple load generator. And we added way more performance stuff. And of course fallback. As soon as Oracle 18.4.0 becomes available, patching will be included in the instructions as well. Everybody should have used OPatch at least once 🙂

What’s in

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

OOW 2018 is coming - and we'll have 4 talks and 4 labs

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs. We are excited and look forward to a very busy OOW. And those who say, OOW is marketing only, please come by to our talks and visit our labs to find out that we don’t do marketing.

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

Oracle Open World 2018 will be a busy conference for us. And we are so happy to have customers talking with us in each of our 4 talks. In addition, we’ll have a Hands-On Lab every day …

Installing Oracle Database 18c

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Installation 4

This blog post about Installing Oracle Database 18c applies to all Oracle 18c releases. I wrote a while ago about one very important change:

Oracle Database 18c – Some Important Changes

and explained that the installation is now image based. You’ll find other posts as part of my series on how to install and upgrade to Oracle Database 18c here:

Installing Oracle Database 18c

Oracle Database 18c on-premises is supposed to be generally available with the July 2018 …

Upgrade Hands-On Lab – Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 – May 2018

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab 6

Roy just uploaded a newer version of our Upgrade Hands-On Lab – Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 – May 2018.

The previous version had – I believe – and early drop of Oracle 12.2.0.1 installed. And recently somebody complained that certain Multitenant operations such as Hot Cloning with Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 don’t work but result in errors. Therefore, we updated it.

Upgrade Hands-On Lab – Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 – May 2018

The size requirements unfortunately are still the same. Your machine should have 8GB of RAM and you will need a bit more than 60GB free space on disk. You “could” run …

IOUG Collaborate 2018 in Las Vegas – Upgrade Talk and Lab

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Conference 0

It’s already mid of April again. One year after IOUG Collaborate 2017. And I was soooo sick last year. This time Roy will fly to Las Vegas and provide an upgrade talk and a lab. Last year for the planning we agreed that this year I would do the RMOUG conference, and Roy instead fly to Nevada. So it’s time for IOUG Collaborate 2018 in Las Vegas – Upgrade Talk and Lab.

IOUG Collaborate 2018 in Las Vegas - Upgrade Talk and Lab

IOUG Collaborate 2018 in Las Vegas – Upgrade Talk and Lab

Roy will give a Hands-On Lab about upgrading to Oracle Database 12.2 on Sunday – and …

Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 2

Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Just a few days to go … I’ll be on my way to San Francisco soon for my tenth or eleventh Oracle Open World Conference 2017 soon. And I look forward to it. Roy has compiled a Focus-On document for Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Upgrades
Migrations
Consolidation with Multitenant
Patching
The new release model
Our talks and labs of course

Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Please find the Focus-On Upgrades and Migrations page here:

https://events.rainfocus.com/widget/oracle/oow17/1505826559931001NQPG

Register for our talks and labs at OOW

Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs Time flies. It’s just a few weeks until 2017’s Oracle Open World Conference in San Francisco. Yes, I’m looking forward to it as it is a perfect place to meet with customers, discuss upgrade and migration topics, and of course learn from each other. And you should come by at our Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs.

No marketing content. Guaranteed.
Just real facts and real customers.
On stage. Live and in color. Uncensored.

Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs

Click here to access our sessions and labs …

Hands-On Lab available: Upgrade to Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 17

Thanks to Roy – our Hands-On Lab “Upgrade, Migrate and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12.2” is now available for download from OTN.

Instructions and technical requirements are clearly documented on the OTN page as well. The lab is based on Virtual Box and can be easily imported upon download and unzip.

You can always access the lab via the blog’s top menu as well:

Hands-On Lab – Access via the Blog

Inside the lab you’ll find :

UPGR – an Oracle 11.2.0.4

New version of our Hands-On Lab available for download “Upgrade/Migrate/Consolidate to Oracle 12c” HOL

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab 5

Yes! Finally …

Roy did all the hard work and patched all our environments with the most recent PSUs. And he managed also to upload our Hands-On Lab not only internally to retriever (Oracle internally) but also to OTN.

What you’ll be able to do?

Upgrade an 11.2.0.4 database UPGR to Oracle Database 12.1.0.2
Plug in UPGR into the CDB2, an Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 Container database, and make it a PDB
Migrate an 11.2.0.4 database FTEX into another PDB using the Full Transportable Export/Import feature
Unplug an Oracle Database 12.1.0.1 PDB and plug it into an Oracle Database 12.1.0.2

VBox 5.0.10 crash issues with our Hands-On-Lab

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab Virtualization 4

Milano - Nov 2015 (c) Mike Dietrich

I’ve ran two Hands-On-Workshops with customers and partners in Italy last week in Milano where we used our well known and thousands-of-times proven Hand-On-Lab environment:

Download Link:
Hands-On-Lab “Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c”

But this time some people failed while running the lab with random corruptions either shutting down the entire VM while running – or displaying file corruptions in the spfile – or other issues.

The common thing in all cases: People had VBox 5.0.10 downloaded and installed right before the workshop.

Of course they’ve did it – as I’m tempted too since …

Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.x – Segmentation Fault in PERL

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Flaws and Pitfalls Hands-On Lab Virtualization 6

Please see as well:

VBox 5.0.10 crash issues with our Hands-On-Lab

Yesterday and the day before I’ve exchanged several emails with Ana who downloaded our Hands-On-Lab from here:

Hands On Lab
Upgrade, Migrate, Consolidate to 12c

after OOW15, encountering a SEGMENTATION FAULT when trying to start the database upgrade with catctl.pl:

$ $ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl catctl.pl catupgrd.sql

Segmentation fault

Very strange thing …

The database is in upgrade mode (checked this in the alert.log) and there are no strange things mentioned anywhere. Plus hundreds of people have run and completed our lab so far.

Tue Nov 10 20:39:47 2015
MMON

OOW 2015 – if you’ve missed our Upgrade Hands On Lab

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab OOW 9

Ready to kick off with the first of our four Hands-On-Labs at OOW15 at the Nikko Hotel. Currently it’s calm before the storm …

OOW 2015

But just in case you didn’t grab a seat at one of the labs then please come to our talk today (Monday!) at 1:30pm in Moscone South 102 as we’ll show you the core parts of the lab – and you’ll be able to download it later on from the blog and run it by yourself.

Upgrade and Migrate to Oracle Database 12c:
Live and Uncensored! [CON6777]
Mike Dietrich, Master Product Manager, Oracle
Roy Swonger, Sr

COLLABORATE15: Hands On Lab: Bring Your Laptop!!!

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2015, Roy and I will deliver two Hands-On Labs at COLLABORATE15 in the “Southseas Room A” in the morning. If you are signed up and read this please don’t forget to bring your laptop with a VNC installed – and power charged for at least 1 hour.

You will access the lab via a VNC session – there are no laptops in the room – and the hotel doesn’t provide power strips for labs shorter than 1 hour 🙁

Unfortunately we don’t have access to the registration data. Therefore we are unable to inform you …

Hands-On-Lab “Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c” available for DOWNLOAD now!

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab Oracle Database 12c 2

Wow … that was a hard piece of work. Roy put a lot of effort into getting our Hands-On-Lab on OTN for download. We promised to have it available after OOW – or at least a description how to create it by yourself. And finally it’s there. Find it here:

Download Link:
Hands-On-Lab “Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c”

A few important things to mention before you start the download:

It’s a Virtual Box image
You will need to install Oracle Virtual Box first – and please install also the VBox Extensions
Your PC must have a 64-bit

Virtual Technology Summit with Hands-On Labs!

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Roy.Swonger Workshop 4

VTS Virtual Technology Summit

If you are at all interested in upgrade to Oracle Database 12c, you really should sign up for the Virtual Technology Summit for February. This is a “pseudo-live” event with recorded webcasts and live experts online to answer questions. Even better, it includes a hands-on lab that will take you through the process of:

Upgrading from 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2
Plugging that upgraded database in as a PDB
Migrating a second 11.2.0.4 database to a second PDB using the new Full Transportable Export/Import feature

The Virtual Technology Summit will run three times:

US Timezone
- February 11, 2015 – 9am to

VBox Hands-on-Lab image – build your own :-)

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Virtualization 0

Oh … I know … I promised to post all the details how I’ve build up our pretty straight forward Hands-On-Lab Roy, Carol, Cindy, Joe and I used at OOW and some other occasions to let you upgrade, migrate and consolidate databases to Oracle Database 12c and into Oracle Multitenant.

And well, some have emailed me already … and I had this feeling that my schedule will be very tight after OOW. Even right now (Sunday evening) I’m already back at my second home, Lufthansa Senator Lounge at Munich Airport. Waiting for my flight to Rome in an hour …

OOW2014 – Presentation and Hands.On.Lab

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 5

Thanks to everybody for coming by yesterday evening to our talk about Upgrade, Migrate and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c. It was really a pleasure to speak in front of so many interested people 🙂

If you’d like to download the slides please access them via the Slides Downloads Center to your right – or via this direct link: OOW 2014: Upgrade, Migrate, Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c

Or you may get the huge +500 slide deck covering all the different options and much more about Oracle Database 12c here: Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c

hands on lab - oow 2014 - upgrade

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