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OCW 19.28 contains a tiny behavior change with DB_UNIQUE_NAME

A colleague brought this to my attention the other week. And since the blog serves also as my partial memory, I wanted to put this out quickly. It is not a big deal, and most of you will never see this or be affected by it. Still, some may need to be aware that OCW 19.28 contains a tiny behavior change with DB_UNIQUE_NAME.

What has happened?

In the Oracle Clusterware (OCW) Release Update (RU) 19.28 and onward you will find a fix for Bug 34966087 – AH: CRS: FAIL START ACTION IF DB …

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The February 2026 release of AutoUpgrade (26.2) is available

This is a ground-breaking new release of AutoUpgrade, and the team worked hard to release it last weekend. This means for you that you should renew your AutoUpgrade tools as The February 2026 release of AutoUpgrade (26.2) is available now for download.

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In case you wonder about this cryptic headline, no worries. a customer highlighted this well-chosen and easy-to-remember number to me the other day. And I was not aware, but it is true: KB123450 is the MOS note allowing you to download AutoUpgrade from MOS. Awesome … I already programmed this …

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Data Pump Bundle Patch for Oracle Database 23ai

While I blogged in the past already several times about how important the Data Pump Bundle Patch for all kinds of migrations is, a question was in my inbox this morning: Is there a separate note for the Data Pump Bundle Patch for Oracle Database 23ai?

Data Pump Bundle Patch for Oracle Database 23ai

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Download the Data Pump Bundle Patch for Oracle 23ai

We shared an intro about the Data Pump Bundle Patch in our Virtual Classroom Seminar #13 a long while ago. And talked about it in our Oracle Cloud World and User Group talks in more detail.

In brief, you …

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part V

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MOS Note released explaining patching without STARTUP UPGRADE mode

An important note regarding OJVM rolling patching has been published on MyOracle Support:

MOS Note: 2217053.1
RAC Rolling Install Process for the “Oracle JavaVM Component Database PSU” (OJVM PSU) Patches

“Beginning with the Jan2017 OJVM PSU patchset for 11.2.0.4 and

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part IV

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What is missing with the “Mitigation Patch?

Michael, the team lead from a large Oracle customer mailed me the other day. He wanted to disable Java on all their +600 databases by using the Mitigation Patch for OJVM. But he received a strange error when trying to enable the …

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part III

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What is the “Mitigation Patch?

In MOS Note:1929745.1 – Oracle JavaVM Component Database Patches there’s a section called What is the Mitigation Patch. It says:
“For situations where the latest OJVM PSU cannot be installed immediately there is a “Mitigation Patch” that can be used. The “Mitigation …

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part II

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Important Notes

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part I

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Who’s the Product Manager for Patching?

First of all, I’m neither a patching expert nor am I the Product Manager for Patching. There’s no such role as far as I know but there are people inside Oracle who have way more clue about this topic. There’s a group …

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OJVM patch: Standby-First patching, yes or no?

I have blogged in the past more than once about the “wonderful” topic of OJVM patching.

Anyhow,  I’d like to summarize a few typical questions sent to me in the past months regarding OJVM patching.

Do I need to apply the OJVM patch every time I apply a PSU or BP?

Unfortunately this is not a one-time-and-then-you-are-set operation. You’ll have to do it every time.

How do I find out if OJVM is used in my database?

I tried to nail this down in this blog post here:

But …

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