Oracle Restart

Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn

Oracle Restart Deprecation announcementgot withdrawnVery good news for all customers using Oracle RESTART:
The Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn.

I have blogged in the past several times about Oracle RESTART of course either regarding upgrade, downgrade and patching:

And one of the customers I work with for quite a while, Swiss Mobiliar Insurance uses Oracle RESTART for all their Oracle Database environments:

The question all customers I deal with who use Oracle RESTART: How long will Oracle support it? And will there be a successor …

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Upgrading ORACLE RESTART from 11.2 to 12.1

First of all, Oracle Restart is deprecated in Oracle Database 12c. Deprecation means the product is still supported, you can open SRs, you’ll get bug fixes – but we won’t do further development of the product or feature.

But a customer (Thanks to Jaco de Graaf for bringing this to my attention!) had a question via the blog about the best approach to upgrade his Oracle Restart configuration …

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Creating ASM for test purposes in the file system

First of all, I’m back after pausing for a while – sorry for not updating the blog in the past weeks … and you won’t see many updates in the following weeks as it’ll be holiday season (and we Germans have sooooo many public holidays) 🙂

Anyway, back to tech topics. Today I want to test Oracle Restart upgrades. Oracle Restart internally is called SIHA (Single Instance High Availability) which explains the topic a bit more. Basically it means having your database reside in ASM and let Oracle Clusterware take care on it, even though you don’t have a cluster. …

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