Author: Fred Denis

I could start this blog the same way I started this one because everything is supposed to be easy and at a 1 click distance in any cloud, so it should be the same for the database backups in Oracle…

Marketers are very good at selling everyone on the fact that resources (CPU, disks, memory) are now infinite, which is mainly true on a slide but it’s less true in real life. You may one day face this situation with…

Now that Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) 19c has been released, it is time to upgrade your GI to 18c! I am presenting here a well-tested procedure to upgrade your Grid Infrastructure to 18c. It has been designed and applied on…

Exadata 19c comes with Linux 7 and Exadata 12c and 18c come with Linux 6. There will then be an upgrade to Linux 7 when upgrading from 12c or 18c to Exadata 19c or above. In this specific case, you…

Like the Universe, IT growth seems to be infinite, we always have more environments, more servers, more users, more disk usage, more databases to manage and it won’t stop. In fact, we are pretty sure that this expansion is going…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    6: Timing Now that we know how to patch every component and the different options available to do so…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    5: Troubleshooting In this post I’ll be sharing a few issues that we faced and sorted out. From a…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    4: The Rollback Procedure You will most likely never need to rollback any patch on an Exadata but it…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    3.4/ Patching the Grid Infrastructure 3.4.0 – Information Patching a node takes around 30 – 45 minutes You have…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 3: The patching procedure 3.1 Patching the Cells (aka Storage Servers)   3.1.0 – Information All actions must be done…