ORA-7445

Upgrading a PDB with JVM may result in ORA-7445 joevm_invokevirtual

As you know, this blog is also my brain dump about Oracle topics. Since this one happened yesterday, mostly at night with the help of my team mates and the Java team, I’d like to write it down into this blog post: Upgrading a PDB with Java may result in ORA-7445 joevm_invokevirtual() as it is still fresh and may affect you as well. If you don’t have PDBs, if you don’t have Java (or JVM) in it or if you upgraded already to Oracle Database 19c, you can stop reading now.

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Important Recommended Patches for Oracle Database 19c

It took a while – but now you can find a new MyOracle Support (MOS) Note with a list of Important Recommended Patches for Oracle Database 19c. It is actually a must-read, regardless whether you are upgrading or migration to 19c, or in case you are already on 19c.

What do you get?

Please check MOS Note: 2720807.1 – Oracle Database 19c Important Recommended One-off Patches. It gives you a list of important fixes for Oracle Database 19c. In the initial version of the note you could select for each available Release …

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Oracle 18.3.0 Multitenant: Compatibility Check does not work

Oracle 18.3.0 Multitenant: Compatibility Check does not workWhen I changed our Hands-On Lab to Oracle 18c, I encountered one strange issue in case I upgraded the UPGR database to 18.3.0 and wanted to plug it in afterwards. Before plugin I usually do a compatibility check. But this seems to fail. I checked my file, my paths, everything. But I couldn’t find the root cause. And yesterday I received an email from a customer who has a case open for over a week encountering a similar problem. And we both came to the conclusion for Oracle 18.3.0 Multitenant: Compatibility Check does not work under certain circumstances.…

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