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Virtual Classroom Seminar 16: Release and Patching Strategy for Oracle 19c and 23c

There are just two days left to sign up for our Virtual Classroom Seminar 16: Release and Patching Strategy for Oracle 19c and 23c. We’ll talk to you on Wednesday, May 10 at 16:00h CET.

What’s the topic?

We’ll try to cover everything for your best release and patching strategy with Oracle Database 19c of course, but also moving forward to Oracle Database 23c. Our big focus will be several aspects of patching. You’ll hear us talking not only about standard database patching but especially about patching in RAC environments.

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Virtual Classroom Seminar 13 Data Pump – Slides, Video and QA

Thanks a lot to everybody who tuned in last week to our Virtual Classroom Seminar #13: Data Pump Extreme – Deep Dive with Development. We’ve had almost 600 attendees, and many of you stayed for the two full hours. And let me tell you that this is just awesome since there are enough people who think that a session has to be just 30 minutes or less. And of course, no it is time to share: Virtual Classroom Seminar 13 Data Pump – Slides, Video and QA.

Virtual Classroom Seminar 13 Data Pump - Slides, Video and QA

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The slides

As usual, you can …

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Virtual Classroom Episode 8: Upgrade Internals and so much more

This is your final chance to sign up within the next hours to our Virtual Classroom Episode 8: Upgrade Internals and so much more  We will run this session on Wednesday Feb 10 at 10:00h CET tomorrow. And in case you don’t know yet what to do on a ice-cold winter Wednesday morning, this is what you should do.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Upgrades (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Virtual Classroom Episode 8: Upgrade Internals and so much more

You see the agenda in the picture above. We will cover not only internals but also diagnosability, monitoring, troubleshooting, tipps, tricks, secrets, workarounds, gothas, dos and don’ts – …

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3 Live Seminars: Upgrade and Performance Seminar 2 Questions answered

Thanks a lot to all of you who participated also in our second seminar. Below you find now 3 Live Seminars: Upgrade and Performance Seminar 2 Questions answered.

3 Live Seminars: Upgrade and Performance Seminar 2 Questions answered

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Your Questions, our Answers for Seminar 2: Upgrade and Performance

I this blog post I answer all questions from the second seminar about AutoUpgrade to Oracle 19c and Performance Stability. Please find the links to the other QAs for Seminar 1 (Release Strategy, Patching and Cool Features) and Seminar 3 (Migration to Multitenant) below in the Links section of this blog post.

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AutoUpgrade Tips: Running two (or more) sessions in parallel

Our intention with the AutoUpgrade as the single tool to upgrade your databases was initially: You have one big config file for your databases. And you will use this file to upgrade your databases unattended. Ideally you run an “analyze” at first, then you schedule a “deploy” for overnight or the next weekend or whenever it is convenient for you. But sometimes people have different needs. In this particular case several people asked whether you can run multiple AutoUpgrade tools in parallel on the same server. Hence, I’d like to explain the first of more AutoUpgrade …

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DMU – Tips and Tricks – Migration Assistant for Unicode

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Please find previous posts about the Data Migration Assistant for Unicode (DMU) here:


Since Roy and I subscribed to the Hot Topics support email we’ll find a very helpful note none of us was aware of almost every second day.

One of these recent finds is:

For those who have never heard of the DMU before you’ll find a very …

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