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Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 – 10am PST

Tomorrow we’ll start our new Virtual Classroom Web Seminar Series, this time for the Americas in a convenient 10am – noon Pacific Time zone. So this is your final change to Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 – 10am PST.

Sign Up Now: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices on Feb 4 - 10am PST

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Why you want to participate?

Roy, Daniel and I will kick of this series with the Episode 1: Database Release Strategy and Patching Best Practices for a reason. We get a ton of question regarding both topics every day. Everybody wants to know about …

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AutoUpgrade and the Partial Offline Backup Strategy

In our Fallback talk we promote a backup strategy for large DWHs and database which are on purpose in NOARCHIVELOG mode. But last week I learned that there is something important to know about AutoUpgrade and the Partial Offline Backup Strategy. Otherwise you may hit a

AutoUpgrade and the Partial Offline Backup Strategy

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pitfall.

 

Partial Offline Backup Strategy?

I won’t explain in all details what this is. If you’d like to read more, please find all the necessary information on my blog post from July 17, 2018:

with graphics included. In brief, you take …

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Upgrade Seminars 1 and 2 – A quick recap, slides download and more

Thank you for participating in the first two seminars. Roy and I did already the “Release and Patching Strategy” webinar on Tuesday, June 23. And today  “AutoUpgrade to Oracle 19c”. So it time for Upgrade Seminars 1 and 2 – A quick recap, slides download and more.

Upgrade Seminars 1 and 2 - A quick recap, slides download and more

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Slides Download

I uploaded the slides already to https://mikedietrichde.com/slides/#WEB2020. Of course, I will upload the other slide decks as well to the same location.

Seminar Recordings

As soon as the recordings page has been completed, we will send out an email. And I will post the links …

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3 Live Seminars: Slides Download and Questions Seminar 1 answered

Thanks a lot to all of you who participated this week in the 3 live Seminars about Database Upgrade, Performance Stability and Multitenant. We were just overwhelmed but so many tuning in. And I hope you’ve enjoyed it. As promised here you’ll get more. So find here for all 3 Live Seminars: Slides Download and Questions Seminar 1 answered. Once the recordings are published, I will tell you via the blog of course as well.

Slides Download

Thanks again also to Laura Garcia Villareal from Oracle University. If you have more questions regarding …

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Premier Support Extension for Oracle 19c – and more

Wait a bit. Oracle Database 19c is not out yet (only in beta right now) but how can we initiate a Premier Support Extension for Oracle 19c already? Well, Oracle 12.2.0.1, Oracle 18c and Oracle 19c all together sail under the cover of the “Oracle 12.2 Release Family” and hence have a common support frame.

What has been announced?

The single-source-of-truth MOS Note:742060.1 got updated. Roy tweeted about it already. And the major change in the note is the extension of the Premier Support for Oracle 19c until March 2023. That is one year more than it was …

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