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Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs

Some of you may remember my blog post from April 22, 2021 about issues I saw with the unattended installation using applyRU and applyOneOffs switches. The installation failed with a strange jox error when I passed on the OJVM bundle to my installation queue. But there is relief – finally, after almost one year. So let me give you some background, and of course show you the workaround for the Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs.

Simple database installation with applyRU and applyOneOffs

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What has happened?

A longer while ago, we introduced the very convenient ability to install patches …

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Installation of Oracle Database 21c on Oracle Linux

As you may have expected already since Oracle Database 21c is available for download on Linux, I will publish some additional posts this week. Today, I will give a quick insight into the installation process.

CDB-only architecture

As you may or may not be aware, Oracle Database 21c is the first Oracle database release with CDB-only architecture. You can’t have a non-CDB in Oracle 21c anymore. Ah, wait a bit, didn’t I blog 1.5 years ago that Oracle Database 20c will be the first CDB-only release? True. But as you saw, there …

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Oracle 19c Installation with 19.11.0 RU, OJVM and some other fixes

In an previous blog post we showed how to install and patch in one single action. And as I use this technique all the time when I setup new homes, would like to show you an Oracle 19c Installation with 19.11.0 RU, OJVM and some other fixes. The purpose of this blog post is mainly to demonstrate again how you can install and patch in one action. But also to help you avoiding a pitfall when you apply the OJVM RU from April 2021.

What do we need?

At first, let us …

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Install and Patch in one single action with OUI

This is such a common case: You want to install a new Oracle Home and you’d like to apply the most recent patch bundle to it as well. But as we don’t officially offer Gold Images to download where the RU is included already, you have to do three tasks instead of one. But you can avoid this and Install and Patch in one single action with OUI.

Recommendation and 3 standard actions

We always recommend that you apply the most recent RU. Hence, usually you will download Oracle Database 19.3.0 from …

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Oracle Database 18.3.0 installation on premises

Oracle Database 18.3.0 installation on premisesOracle Database 18.3.0 is available on Linux since July 23, 2018. And I wanted to quickly sneak into the Oracle Database 18.3.0 installation on premises. I did blog about the Oracle 18c installation a few weeks ago but this was a plain 18.1.0. This time I install the 18.3.0 on-prem edition for Linux.

Oracle Database 18.3.0 installation on premises

Are the any differences between an 18.1.0 and the 18.3.0 installation? No, there aren’t any (at least not anything I recognized). The most important thing: you must unzip the downloaded file into your future destination directory.

In my case I …

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Installing Oracle Database 18c

Installing Oracle Database 18cThis blog post about Installing Oracle Database 18c applies to all Oracle 18c releases. I wrote a while ago about one very important change:

and explained that the installation is now image based. You’ll find other posts as part of my series on how to install and upgrade to Oracle Database 18c here:

Installing Oracle Database 18c

Oracle Database 18c on-premises is supposed to be generally available with the July 2018 …

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Deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

Deinstalling Oracle Database 12.2.0.1This 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:

The documentation lists two removal options:

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Recap on Deinstall Routines

A few weeks ago I’Ve posted something about the deinstall utility as OUI doesn’t offer a “deinstall software” option anymore:
How to deinstall “old” SW after 11.2.0.2 has been applied?

And I’ve got some feedback (which is a good sign as it means that some of the content might be useful and will be read – and from the follow-up you see that we’ll read your comments and emails as well 🙂 ).

Anyway, the feedback was either CRS deinstall does not work the right way or deinstall cleans up too many things. So Roy did follow …

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