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The October 2025 Release of AutoUpgrade (25.6) is available

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 9

It’s October – and while the leafs keep falling on the northern hemisphere, the October 2025 Release of AutoUpgrade (25.6) is available. Get it now – and find the list of features and fixes below.

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

What’s new?

Again, a lot. 25.6 release has a significant and important number of enhancements. It includes the …

AutoUpgrade patching – getting started with Connor McDonald

AIOUG OC Yatra 2025 is over, and I somehow recovered as well. As I wrote here, it was (again) an incredible experience with all those wonderful people (you!!) and those crazy speakers (us!) – and I learned a lot again. Still, I had no clue that Database and Developer evangelist and video wizard Connor McDonald would react to my friendly nagging 🙂

AutoUpgrade patching - getting started with Connor McDonald

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Have you used AutoUpgrade before?

If you say “No, not really“, then this video is for you. See how Connor dives into AutoUpgrade which he had never used before.…

The 25.1 version of AutoUpgrade is available for download

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade Patch Recommendation 53

It’s time for a new version of AutoUpgrade. The 25.1 version of AutoUpgrade is available for download. And you should refresh your existing versions quickly since we added plenty of new and long awaited features but we of course fixed also known bugs.

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How to download AutoUpgrade 25.1

Not only can you download the newest AutoUpgrade and its previous versions from MOS Note:2485457.1 – Download AutoUpgrade. But for many of you it may be easier to just fetch it with wget or curl directly from:

Download AutoUpgrade directly from oracle.com

You …

AutoUpgrade’s Patching: The feature you waited for

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade Patch Recommendation 49

Over the almost past 6 years since we unleashed it, AutoUpgrade changed Oracle Database upgrades significantly. But we’ve been asked so many times about one missing feature. And now it is available. Still in V.1, not feature complete (yet). And we know that you have wishes and desires. Stay with us, it’s going to improve rapidly. So, let us kick off AutoUpgrade’s Patching: The feature you waited for.

AutoUpgrade's Patching: The feature you waited for

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Wait a bit … AutoUpgrade Patching??

Yes, you are right. AutoUpgrade can patch your database from home A to home B for a longer …

The downsides of in-place patching – and a patching lab

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich Best Practice Patch Recommendation 40

Happy New Year to all of you at first. I hope you all had a good start – and for myself, I promise to blog a bit more again in 2024. Let me start with my first post since I received a question very often: Why should I patch out-of-place with a new Oracle Home? Since I need to patch a bit today I can easily show the downsides of in-place patching – and a patching lab.

The downsides of in-place patching - and a patching lab

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It all started at OCW 2023

Ok, we didn’t really start it at OCW 2023 in …

Adding the Oracle 19.14.0 OCW / GI bundle patch to my database home

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 16

Actually I planned for a different blog post this morning. But since I have a backlog of unanswered comments accumulated I came across this interesting question from Pedro. He wanted to know how he can patch the OCW component in his database home. So I thought I will show you the process of Adding the Oracle 19.14.0 OCW / GI bundle patch to my database home.

Adding the Oracle 19.14.0 OCW / GI bundle patch to my database home

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Is this necessary?

That’s a good question for a Monday morning. I think: No, that isn’t necessary for a “Database only” home where you don’t have or …

Deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich Removal 8

This is part of a blog post series where I install Oracle 18c on-premises in our Hands-On Lab and upgrade the Multitenant 12.2.0.1 database as well. But in order to save space, deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 is my next task. You find all the blog posts connected to each other here:

Deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

In the Oracle Installation documentation you’ll find this part:

Removing Oracle Database Software

The documentation lists two removal options:

Deinstallation with the Oracle Universal

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The October 2025 Release of AutoUpgrade (25.6) is available

How to download it?

What’s new?

AutoUpgrade patching – getting started with Connor McDonald

Have you used AutoUpgrade before?

The 25.1 version of AutoUpgrade is available for download

How to download AutoUpgrade 25.1

AutoUpgrade’s Patching: The feature you waited for

Wait a bit … AutoUpgrade Patching??

The downsides of in-place patching – and a patching lab

It all started at OCW 2023

Adding the Oracle 19.14.0 OCW / GI bundle patch to my database home

Is this necessary?

Deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

Deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

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