You can enter your passwords into the AutoUpgrade keystore for safe-keeping. But what about automation? Here's a neat trick to fully automate the process of loading passwords into the AutoUpgrade keystore.

Since several customers asked me about it, I realized that I have never blogged about LTRUs - and as of now, Long-Term Release Updates are paused. Let me explain what the concept meant, where you can find information about it and what it would mean in your environment. Long-Term Release Update The idea is smart for those customers who can't move forward on Release Updates (RU) as quickly as we recommend it.

In a recent migration we needed a PDB with a specific timezone file version. Here's how to do that.

You completed Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog post series already? Then you are ready for AutoUpgrade Patching - From Zero to Hero - Part 3: Download Patches. Let us start simple, and then increase the scope to fetch the patches for various operating system platforms in your local patching folder. Which download? Strange headline - but you'll see what I mean.

In this blog post series AutoUpgrade Patching - From Zero to Hero - Part 2: MOS Credentials will be our topic for today. If you are tired of going through MOS notes over and over again to identify the most important fixes and fetch them, you need to automate it. But in order to automate the download, you need to infuse your MOS credentials into the AutoUpgrade keystore.

Assess the patching readiness of your Oracle AI Database with Datapatch Sanity Checks and avoid the common pitfalls.

Have you done migration projects in the past, or do you have some upcoming projects, and you wonder how you should treat all sorts of statistics in your database? What is the better option? Keep and migrate the existing ones? Regather them right away? A partial-move approach? How to deal with statistics when you migrate? Then this is for you. …

I just returned from a 2 week vacation in Asia this weekend. And I was following from a distance. On May 28, the first CSPUs got released, some MOS notes got published. There are a lot of patching options now. CPU, CSPU, MRP, RU - some clarifications may be needed. The Prelude On May 4, 2026, I published this blog post…

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Since several people mailed me yesterday and this morning about Release Update 19.31 been not available for download from My Oracle Support, here is a the explanation about why RU 19.31 has been put on hold and will be available soon again. What has happened? We released a MOS Note with detailed information: (KB888427) Oracle Database 19.31 Patch Hold Due to ORA-00600 Errors on Exadata 25.2…

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