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AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 1: Download AutoUpgrade

I was traveling the past two weeks, and I met a lot of customers who still “enjoy” navigating through MOS and searching for the right patches to download. This blog post series will give you ultimate relief, and it will ease your life as DBAs and sysadmins. You must patch more frequently – and this is the key solution for everyone. Let’s get us started with AutoUpgrade Patching – From Zero to Hero – Part 1: Download AutoUpgrade today.

AutoUpgrade Patching - From Zero to Hero - Part 1

Download the newest version of AutoUpgrade

Our first task is simple. You will find autoupgrade.jar in your ?/rdbms/admin directory since Oracle …

The August 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.4) is available

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 10

This time the AutoUpgrade team did magic and included so many great new features and useful enhancements into the new version of AutoUpgrade. So, please note: The August 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.4) is available for download. You should refresh your current versions, especially when you use it for patching, and especially if you attempt to do in an RAC (Real Application Clusters) environment. But read more below.

The August 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.4) is available

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How to download it?

As usual, that’s very simple. You either download it via the well-known

MOS Note: 2485457.1 – AutoUpgrade Tool

or you fetch …

The May 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.3) is available

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 11

Many of you know it and downloaded it already. But just in case you are not aware yet, let me give you a quick summary since the May 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.3) is available for download.

The May 2025 version of AutoUpgrade (25.3) is available

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How to download it?

That’s very simple. You either download it via the well-known

MOS Note: 2485457.1 – AutoUpgrade Tool

or you fetch it directly from oracle.com with curl, wget or by just clicking on the big button.

What’s new?

Well, 25.3 is a one-fix-only release, the real change was in 25.2 released a week …

Download AutoUpgrade directly from oracle.com

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 4

We were promising this for a long while, and thanks to Bill’s persistence and hard work we finally can offer you something which will make your DBA life easier: The ability to Download AutoUpgrade directly from oracle.com.

Download AutoUpgrade directly from oracle.com

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What does this mean?

You know that you can download a new version of AutoUpgrade from My Oracle Support via MOS Note:2485457.1 – Download AutoUpgrade. This was the case since day 1, and even before we released AutoUpgrade together with Oracle Database 19c about 5.5 years ago. We used the note already in the …

Oracle Database 18c on-prem for MS Windows is available

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Oracle Database 18c 0

I know it got delayed a bit. But there’s a good reason for the delay. In addition, my post is a bit late as well but I was on vacation. Anyway, you can download it since Aug 22, 2018. Oracle Database 18c on-prem for MS Windows is available.

Oracle Database 18c on-prem for MS Windows is available