Packages

DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE Package in Oracle 12.2 and 18c

Yes, I did blog about the DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE package in earlier Oracle releases before. And I thought (and it was documented this way) that it will disappear in Oracle 12.2 and newer. But in fact you’ll find the DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE package in Oracle 12.2 and 18c. Most likely …

This is a very interesting case and you may see also my previous blog posts:

DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE Package in Oracle 12.2 and 18c

First of …

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Gather SQL Statements from AWR and Cursor Cache without need for Diag and Tuning Packs

When we talk about database upgrades and migrations the most important (and unfortunately time-/resource consuming) activity is testing.

But often testing resources are limited or, even worse, don’t exist. I’ve worked with customers where we migrated a core EBS system off AIX to Linux – but only got a 6 year old Tru64 box for testing purposes (where the recompilation took 20x as long as later on the production environment). Or the classic one: Database is too big thus we test only with 10% of the data.

I know that often your hands are tied. Everybody wants an 1:1 …

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Package Differences between Oracle 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2?

The question sounds pretty trivial:

Which packages did exist in Oracle 11.2.0.4 but don’t exist in Oracle 12.1.0.2 anymore?

And going a bit deeper into the topic,

Which procedures and functions calls of SYS packages have been changed since then?

A colleague of mine (thanks to Thomas Kempkens from ACS Support for writing up a fancy procedure – all credits go to him) had to dig this out for a customer,

See the result.
These packages don’t exist in Oracle 12.1.0.2 anymore but did exist in Oracle 11.2.0.4 (without PSUs):

CWM2_OLAP_INSTALLER
DBMS_AMD
DBMS_APPCTX
DBMS_DBLINK
DBMS_DM_IMP_INTERNAL
DBMS_DM_UTIL_INTERNAL
DBMS_DUMA_INTERNAL
DBMS_JDM_INTERNAL
DBMS_RULE_COMPATIBLE_90
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