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Refreshable clone with AutoUpgrade but keep your RAC configuration?

I had to shorten the headline a bit. It got very bulky saying at first: Use a Refreshable Clone with AutoUpgrade from non-CDB to PDB but keep your RAC configuration alive. Well, you see, that’s bulky. But it describes the case I would like to briefly show you. Helmut Pfau, a colleague of mine here in Germany asked this the other day, and it took us a bit to get the correct answer to him – I confess, simply because I didn’t know the right AutoUpgrade parameter.

Refreshable clone with AutoUpgrade but keep your RAC configuration?

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We love Refreshable Clones

You’ve …

Who’s who in CDB_SERVICES, SERVICE$, and more?

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich Best Practice 8

I visited a customer recently, and they will use Refreshable Clone PDBs to move from Oracle Database 19c to Oracle Database 23ai. So far, nothing special. But after cloning there was an issue with the services creation with srvctl. We started querying the various views in the database, found some divergence but no good MOS note or documentation listing all the differences. Maybe this blog post will help a bit to shed some light.

Who's who in CDB_SERVICES, SERVICE$, and more?

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Why do you need to take care on services?

Daniel has described this very nicely the other week in …

AutoUpgrade 24.8 has been released adding MS Windows patching support

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich AutoUpgrade 8

Our developers are amazing. And you may have felt this the past months. In September for OCW2024 we released AutoUpgrade 24.6 with the new patching ability, in October we then released 24.7 improving it significantly and fixing issues based on the first tests, and now in November 2024 AutoUpgrade 24.8 has been released adding MS Windows patching support. Of course, there’s more in AutoUpgrade.