Oracle Upgrade

Upgrade Essentials – Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Video / Viewlet Workshop 0

Roy, Daniel and I ran 6 workshops in our Virtual Classroom Series 2000 format. Each of them is between 90 and 120 minutes. This sounds quite long but of course you can scroll forward if you are interested in only a part of it. We consider those the Upgrade Essentials – Videos for the Virtual Classroom Series 2020. As as we now completed the 6th web seminar, it’s time for a short recap.

Is Upgrade that complicated?

Good question. If upgrade is so easy as we say, why do you need 6 virtual sessions …

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Oracle Database Upgrade – Quick Start Guide available

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Best Practice 8

If you don’t deal with databases upgrades every day but just want to see a short and good overview about how to do a successful database upgrade, then this is for you. A few days ago we’ve made the Oracle Database Upgrade – Quick Start Guide available for download.

Oracle Database Upgrade - Quick Start Guide available

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Why a Quick Start Guide?

If database upgrades are your daily topic, you won’t need our quick start guide. But if you need a short overview about the right steps to approach an upgrade, this guide is for you. Thanks to my PM colleague, …

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9 Upgrade and Migration Scenarios

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Documentation 9

Our doc team has put a lot of effort together with the help of my team mates and created these 9 Upgrade and Migration Scenarios as part of the official Oracle documentation.

9 Upgrade and Migration Scenarios

The idea is to cut out the most common use cases and give a quick and comprehensive overview on all necessary steps.

9 Upgrade and Migration Scenarios

These comprehensive 9 scenarios cover non-CDB and PDB/CDB as well as changing to new hardware:

  • Migrating and Converting Non-CDBs to a PDB with a Different Endian Operating System
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  • Migrating Non-CDBs to New Hardware with a Different
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CSX Corporation Upgrades Databases 2x Faster With Oracle Real Application Testing

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Customer Success 0

Wow – one of our reference projects went into the Yahoo Finance webpages. Carol Tagliaferri (my direct manager) worked with CSX, one of the largest US based railway companies, over a longer period together with the RAT team, and helped CSX to successfully upgrade and migrate their database landscape to Oracle Database 11.2.
Plus: We did present about CSX at Oracle Open World 2012 as this project is a perfect showcase for:

(a) an Upgrade project with many databases
(b) over a longer period of time
(c) using Real Application Testing decreasing the testing effort by factors!

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