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AutoUpgrade: Refresh Status Information automatically

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 4

I have heard and received this question several times. And I always pointed people to the status logs in AutoUpgrade’s logging directory. But I wasn’t aware how simple the monitoring can be. Kudos to my colleague Meir Burmanov from Oracle Israel for explaining me today how you can simply monitor AutoUpgrade: Refresh Status Information automatically.

AutoUpgrade: Refresh Status Information automatically

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Like it – and it’s very simple

This won’t be a long blog post. And maybe there are even more fancier ways to do the monitoring. But for me it does the job. And it is super simple. …

Upgrade Testing with a Refreshable PDB – does this work?

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Single-/Multitenant 6

Yesterday, Daniel pinged me to discuss an upgrade testing scenario I had evaluated briefly by myself a while ago. I can’t remember why I gave up. But Daniel had some great ideas and tried already a lot in our OCI cloud. We want to use a refreshable PDB. And keep it up to date, then upgrade it. The idea of this approach: Whereas a CLONE or RELOCATE uses the initial command as the marker, a REFRESH would allow me to be way more in synch. So the question is: Upgrade Testing with a Refreshable PDB – does this work?

Upgrade Testing with a Refreshable PDB - does this work?

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January 2020 AutoUpgrade is available for download

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 34

All of you upgrading your databases with AutoUpgrade or planning to do so can now download the newest version of our AutoUpgrade tool. We are offering the 20191220 version. If you ask yourself why we release the December version in January 2020, there’s a simple answer. We do extensive system testing with it before releasing it to the public.