Category: Oracle Database General

Those days, I was testing if it is possible to create a snapshot sparse clone in one database referencing a PDB on a lower release (like 19.11), and later applying datapatch on this cloned PDB to take it to the higher release (like 19.12). Technically I couldn't see any constraint, given the Snapshot Copy requirements …

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Oracle Database 21c (21.3.0) was just released last Friday (14/Aug/2021) for Linux x86_64! If you open the New Features APEX page (https://apex.oracle.com/database-features/) and filter with "21c" and "New features only", you will see there are about 215 features, which is impressive! However, sometimes you want to understand better the changes performed by a new release …

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The 19.12 patch cycle was out last week for both Database and Grid Infrastructure. Since then, I've seen some customers complaining about an issue in the tomcat patch when trying to patch their environment with the latest opatch version: The oracle home /u01/app/grid has a platform Linux x86-64 that is not one of the supported …

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Starting this patch cycle (July-2021), I will write quarterly blog posts giving much more details about the internal changes performed by patches in Oracle internal dictionary views and files. In the past, those changes included only code changes. Please leave in the comments if you think that anything would worth to be included. For some …

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Starting this patch cycle (July-2021), I will write quarterly blog posts giving much more details about the internal changes performed by patches in Oracle internal dictionary views and files. In the past, those changes included only code changes. To understand why it is 19.10.3 and not 19.10.2, check this article. Please leave in the comments …

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