Infrastructure at your Service
With Oracle 20c, the non-multitenant architecture is no longer supported. So, people will have to migrate their databases to container if they want to use Oracle 20c. There are many methods to transform a non-cdb database to a pluggable one. -Datapump -Full Trabsportable Tablespaces -Plugging non-cdb database , upgrade the plugged database and then convert -Upgrading the non-cdb database, then plug it the container and then convert it ( But I am not sure that…
As you probably know, Documentum introduced the optional use of a Lockbox since version 7. It was done initially to contribute to the security of the AEK key which is one of the central components of a Content Server. Time showed that, well, it’s not so easy and since then, nothing much changed on the Lockbox layer. With the version 16.4, OpenText introduced some new things regarding the Lockbox like the upgrade from version 3…
At a customer, we are upgrading Control-M Agents running on Windows/Unix from 9.0.00.400 to 9.0.19.200 using Agent Deployment, an upgrade of one agent fails with error talking about communication issue between Control-M/server and Control-M agent:
If you are used to Java, you probably know that there are really important security fixes published every quarter in the Java Critical Patch Update (CPU) and it’s really important to keep it up to date. It’s always easy to upgrade your Java installation, you just have to deploy the new version entirely. In most cases, it’s also pretty easy to update the Components that are using Java (E.g.: Application Servers like Apache Tomcat), since…
One of our customer has been initially creating a RMAN catalog on an Oracle database release 12.1.0.2.0 and was now intending to register new Oracle 12.2.0.1.0 databases. Registering the databases will be failing with errors : PL/SQL package RCAT.DBMS_RCVCAT version 12.01.00.02 in RCVCAT database is too old RMAN-06429: RCVCAT database is not compatible with this version of RMAN
To do some application and performances tests, I had to copy a database from a third party Linux server to an ODA X7-2M. Looks pretty simple on the paper, but 2 small challenges came into the game. The first was that of course the source database was in Non-OMF while ODA works fully in OMF. The second was that the source database is running 11.2.0.3 which is not supported and cannot be installed on the…
By Franck Pachot . Oracle 18c is out, in the Oracle Cloud, and the first thing I do with a new version is testing how long it takes to upgrade a previous version PDB by unplug/plug. Faster upgrade should be the benefit of having a slim dictionary where the system objects are reduced to metadata links and data links. However, it looks like upgrading the PDB dictionary still takes the same time as upgrading the…
The 12.2 finally arrived on ODA and is now available on all generations. Modern ODAs are now supporting 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2 and 12.2.0.1 database engines, and these 3 versions can work together without any problem. You probably plan to upgrade some old databases to the latest engine, at least those still running on 11.2. As you may know, 11.2 is no more supported with premier support since January 2015: it’s time to think about an upgrade….
Oracle 12.2 is released and we will have to upgrade. And in this blog we are going to talk about upgrading to oracle 12.2 using the dbupgrade utility. Of course the dbua tool is still available and can be also used. Oracle Database 12.1 introduced the Parallel Upgrade Utility, catctl.pl. This utility reduces the total amount of time it takes to perform an upgrade by loading the database dictionary in parallel, and by using multiple…
By Franck Pachot . Upgrading from 12.1 to 12.2 is easy in Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS because you are in multitenant. Here is how to clone a 12.1 PDB to 12.2 service.
