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To which release should you upgrade to? Revisited …

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Release Schedule 0

I’ve had so many discussions with customers and partners, and also with colleagues in the past weeks and months about the support time frames for Oracle Database 12.2. Now I checked the blog, and I found so many posts about support periods. And I wrote a similar blog post already 1.5 years ago. I think it’s time to summarize all that. And give you some guidance as well about to which release should you upgrade to? Revisited …

To which release should you upgrade to? Revisited ...

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Overview

Basically there are 2 sources to learn about Support time frames for the database release:…

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Oracle Database 20c – The first CDB-only release

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Oracle Database 20c 8

Do you remember? At OOW 2019 in San Francisco, we announced that Oracle Database 20c will be the first CDB-only database release. But at this time we didn’t present this in written form. We told you, once the Oracle Database 20c documentation is available, you will see it. Oracle Database 20c – The first CDB-only release.

Oracle Database 20c - The first CDB-only release

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Oracle 20c is the first CDB-only release

Typically you will find deprecation and desupport notes in the Database Upgrade Guide. And there you will see also this note:

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Oracle Database 20c – Documentation and Cloud availability

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Oracle Database 20c 2

Yesterday at OOW London, my dear colleague from Oracle Italy, Roberto Zampese told me that our EVP Juan Loiza has announced the availability of Oracle 20c within days. And this morning, Daniel told me that it you can provision 20c instances in our OCI Cloud already. In addition, the documentation is available already, too.

Oracle Database 20c – Documentation and Cloud availability

First of all, find the Oracle Database 20c documentation here:

And as usual, the first thing I usually do, is browsing through the New Features Guide.

Oracle Database 20c - Documentation and Cloud availability

There are a lot of interesting new things in Oracle …

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