upgrade mode

I try to catch up with missing AutoUpgrade posts. And I should have written this one a while earlier ideally. Just yesterday a colleague asked me about it. So it’s time now to describe how to use Oracle AutoUpgrade between two servers.

Documentation

The Oracle Database 19c Upgrade Guide has this section about the scenario:

• AutoUpgrade with Source and Target Database Homes on Different Servers

And you see that it consists of 5 steps:

1. Run the -mode analyze step on source server
2. Run the -mode fixups step on source server
3. Shutdown and

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