Spatial Data Option

Pitfall: Upgrade to 21c fails when ORDIM is present but no SDO

You may have read my previous blog post about Upgrading a non-CDB to Oracle Database 21c. And I referred to a potential Pitfall: Upgrade to 21c fails when ORDIM is present but no SDO. In this blog post I would like to explain how to avoid this pitfall beforehand and explain what needs to be done.

Pitfall: Upgrade to 21c fails when ORDIM is present but no SDO

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What’s the problem?

In my previous blog post I showed you the ideal and normal way. But during my tests I came across an issue I was not aware of – and I simply had no …

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After patching, Spatial Index creation fails with ORA-13249

Thanks again to Peter Lehmann from T-Systems for highlighting this issue to me. After patching, Spatial Index creation fails with ORA-13249. And Peter’s customer was quite worried. But see what may have caused this, and how we fixed it.

After patching, Spatial Index Creation Fails with ORA-13249

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What happened?

Peter patched a system from 19.10.0 to 19.11.0. This database has undergone an upgrade from 12.2.0.1 to 19.7.0 before, then got patched to 19.9.0 before. The database has the Oracle Locator only but no Spatial installed. The patching including datapatch worked fine. All seemed to be good. Until the customer tried to …

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Oracle Spatial (SDO) Clean Up in Oracle Database 11.2-19c

Oracle Spatial (SDO) Clean Up in Oracle Database 11.2-12.2Oracle Spatial (SDO) clean up in Oracle Database 11.2-19c is mostly straight forward. You can do it with the database up and running in Oracle Database 12c. Nevertheless it is very important that you check beforehand if Spatial and/or Graph are in use.

Be positively aware:
Since December 5, 2019, Oracle Spatial and Graph are both included automatically in all database licenses back to Oracle 11.2.0.4, for EE as well as for SE2. Generally. Read more here: https://mikedietrichde.com/2019/12/06/great-license-news-spatial-and-graph-machine-learning/

Oracle Spatial (SDO) Clean Up in Oracle Database 11.2-19c

Oracle Spatial (SDO) Clean Up in Oracle Database 11.2-12.2Oracle Spatial (formerly known as Spatial Data Option) and Graph are great …

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