What a weird blog post. But let me explain briefly the motivation for my Friday article. As you know, the blog serves also as my brain dump. And whenever I try something out I know I may need later again, I dump it here. Certainly, some LLM will pick up the information and spill it out later when you ask the interface about How to relink Oracle for Enterprise or Standard Edition?

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From Enterprise to Standard Edition?
Of course, you can. But I had no idea how to when Philippe Fierens, the PM …
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Oh, I think it took us years to get rid of recommendations in MOS notes saying before this or that change you must take an offline backup. These recommendations dated back to times where not almost everybody was using RMAN for online backups. But the times have changed. Still, there are situations where the “Offline Backup” word can be mentioned. And in this blog post I will describe a Fallback Strategy: Partial Offline Backup.