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Your UPGRADE and MIGRATION program at OCW23

Posted on September 4, 2023 by OOW 4

Are you coming to Oracle Cloud World 2023 and to Oracle DatabaseWorld at CloudWorld? Then you should read on since this may be your upgrade and migration program at OCW23. We are desperately looking forward to see and meet you in 2 weeks in Las Vegas. Don’t forget to add the talks you’d like to visit to your schedule as some of the rooms have limited capacity. And at least one of our labs is already sold out.

https://www.oracle.com/database/upgrades/#rc30p2

Who’s speaking and HOL’ing?

Speakers and your lab hosts will be:

  • Roy Swonger
  • Mike Dietrich
  • Daniel Overby Hansen
  • Rodrigo Jorge
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The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download

Posted on February 6, 2020 by 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 …

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The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available

Posted on July 10, 2019 by 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 …

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Hello, hello … Vienna Calling … AOUG 2019

Posted on May 13, 2019 by 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 …

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Installing Oracle Database 18c

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Installation 4

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

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 …

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OTN Tour South America 2017: Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Workshop 0

Time flies – and the OTN Tour South America 2017: Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil is over for me. I’m back home.

OTN Tour South America 2017: Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil

But Id like to thank many people. It was an awesome tour again. I participated for the forth time. And I learned a lot again. From customers who discussed their upgrades and migrations with me. From the other presenters who did a terrific job.

OTN Tour South America 2017: Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil

A very big Thank You to all the people who organized the events. I liked it a lot. And you deserve a lot of credits for …

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Hands-On Lab available: Upgrade to Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

Posted on March 29, 2017 by 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:

HOL Link on the Upgrade Blog

Hands-On Lab – Access via the Blog

Inside the lab you’ll find :

  • UPGR – an Oracle 11.2.0.4
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New version of our Hands-On Lab available for download “Upgrade/Migrate/Consolidate to Oracle 12c” HOL

Posted on December 16, 2015 by 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
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VBox 5.0.10 crash issues with our Hands-On-Lab

Posted on November 30, 2015 by 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:

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 …

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Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.x – Segmentation Fault in PERL

Posted on November 12, 2015 by 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:

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

Posted on October 26, 2015 by 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.

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

Posted on April 14, 2015 by 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 …

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

Posted on February 13, 2015 by 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:

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

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Virtual Technology Summit with Hands-On Labs!

Posted on February 9, 2015 by 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:

  1. Upgrading from 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2
  2. Plugging that upgraded database in as a PDB
  3. 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
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VBox Hands-on-Lab image – build your own :-)

Posted on November 30, 2014 by 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 …

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OOW2014 – Presentation and Hands.On.Lab

Posted on September 30, 2014 by 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

And …

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OOW 2014 – Upgrade Hands-On-Lab at NIKKO HOTEL

Posted on September 9, 2014 by OOW 1

This year’s Oracle Open World will be a real challenge logistically for us. Non-privileged employees were assigned to airport hotels only. So Roy, Joe, Dean and I stay >16 miles (>25km) away from Moscone Center. And to make things even more complicated due to some reconstruction at the Moscone Center (I hope they’ll get rid of their 1990s audio equipment and such) our Hands On Labs for instance are at the NIKKO Hotel, not at the Marriott Marquee anymore.

These are the dates for our HOL about How to upgrade to Oracle Database 12c and plug into Oracle …

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OOW 2013: Hands On Lab

Posted on September 25, 2013 by OOW 0

Hello everybody,

thanks a lot for your attendance at our Hands On Lab at OOW 2013 – glad that you’ve made it through our 4 HOL tasks 🙂 And sorry again for the slow laptops but that’s not under our control.

For those who wanted to download the slides please use the slides from our OOW talk as it contains almost all of the slides we’ve showed during the lab. And in case you want to get the full set of over 500 slides about Upgrade, Migration and Consolidation to Oracle Database 12c please find them in the Slides …

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OOW 2012:
Slides Download

Posted on October 8, 2012 by OOW 0

Hm … you might ask yourself why there are no Oracle Database 12c slides available for download, neither in the OOW 2012 content system nor on our blog (and I believe nowhere else).

Simple reason: As long as Oracle Database 12c is not released and available we are not allowed to offer slides for download. Therefore people were simply taking pictures during the 12c sessions with their phones, iPods and cameras. Roy took a nice shot:

Sorry for that – we’ll make the content available as soon as Oracle Database 12c gets released.

In between you can download …

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It’s Oracle Open World Time … again :-)

Posted on August 23, 2012 by OOW 2

Oh well … Oracle Open World 2012 is not far away anymore. Just a few weeks to go. And you might plan your travel currently or read a travel guide about San Francisco while we are finishing the work for our Hands-On-Lab image plus a detailed set of instructions, finalize our presentation slides and arrange customer meetings, breakfast, lunch and dinner appointments.

I really like going to San Francisco every year at least once as it is one of my favorite US cities – but Open World prep means really a lot of work, many late night shifts and plenty …

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