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AutoUpgrade: Refresh Status Information automatically

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. And as things progress quickly, and we have smart developers in the upgrade team, I had to refresh this blog post soon after. See below …

Like it – and it’s very simple

This won’t be a long …

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What happens to components with OPTION OFF status during upgrade?

What happens to components with OPTION OFF status during upgrade?In the newer releases of Oracle database you may see components with status OPTION OFF in the database’s registry. But what happens to components with OPTION OFF status during upgrade? Will those stay on the old release?

What happens to components with OPTION OFF status during upgrade?

You may have a quick look into your DBA_REGISTRY (or CDB_REGISTRY). I used the check_components.sql script.

COMP_ID	COMP_NAME			   SCHEMA	STATUS	   VERSION
-------- ---------------------------------- ------------ ---------- ------------
CATALOG	Oracle Database Catalog Views	   SYS		VALID	   12.1.0.2.0
CATJAVA	Oracle Database Java Packages	   SYS		VALID	   12.1.0.2.0
CATPROC	Oracle Database Packages and Types SYS		VALID	   12.1.0.2.0
JAVAVM	
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Some Data Pump issues: DBMS_DATAPUMP Import via NETWORK_LINK fails + STATUS parameter giving bad performance

One of my dear Oracle ACS colleagues (Danke Thomas!) highlighted this issue to me as one of his lead customers hit this pitfall a week ago. .

DBMS_DATAPUMP Import Over NETWORK_LINK fails with ORA-39126 / ORA-31600

Symptoms are:

KUPW$WORKER.CONFIGURE_METADATA_UNLOAD [ESTIMATE_PHASE]
ORA-31600: invalid input value IN ('VIEWS_AS_TABLES/TABLE_DATA') for parameter VALUE in function SET_FILTER

This can be cured with the patch for bug19501000 –  but this patch can conflict with:Bug 18793246  EXPDP slow showing base object lookup during datapump export causes full table scan per object and therefore may require a merge patchpatch 21253883 is the one to go …

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