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Xavier Franck Godard

Xavier-Franck Godard has more than 25 years of experience in Information Technology. His expertise covers database architecture, disaster recovery (Data Guard), backup and recoverability configuration (RMAN, Flashback), performance analysis and tuning (AWR/ADDM, Statspack), and migration/upgrade projects on-premises and on Oracle Database Appliance. Prior to dbi services, he was a senior DBA at DIGORA for seven years, a database consultant at A2F Services for seven years, and a DBA at Société des Autoroutes Paris-Normandie (SAPN) for eight years. He holds a Master's degree in Pure Mathematics. His industry experience covers retail, public sector, insurance, banking, health, and e-commerce.

4 posts since January 2025

Discover refreshable clone PDB with Autoupgrade

AutoUpgrade with a refreshable clone is basically “zero‑panic upgrades with a live copy of your database.”. What problem it solves Traditionally you had to schedule a maintenance window, stop everything, take a backup, upgrade, and hope nothing went wrong. With a refreshable clone PDB, AutoUpgrade builds and continuously syncs a copy of your database while production stays online. At cutover… 

Convert Oracle non-CDB database to CDB with AutoUpgrade

Since Oracle 21c, the non-CDB architecture has been deprecated. This means that all Oracle databases must now adopt the multitenant architecture (CDB + PDB). Thankfully, Oracle provides a powerful utility to ease this transition: AutoUpgrade. In this post, I’ll walk you through converting a non-CDB database into a PDB within a target CDB using AutoUpgrade. 🔎 Table of Contents 🔧… 

Oracle AutoUpgrade? Easy way to upgrade your Oracle Database! Part I

Introduction The AutoUpgrade utility is designed to automate the upgrade process, both before starting upgrades, during upgrade deployments, and during postupgrade checks and configuration migration The Oracle AutoUpgrade Tool is part of Oracle Home since the version 12.1.0.2.It’s a java-based program which can be download on MySupport Oracle : ID 2485457.1It’s recommanded to use the lastest version (as usual, like… 

How to clone remote PDB with dbaascli on ExaCC?

When your DB infrastructure move to ExaCC, it’s a good option to appropriate the tools offer by it to facilitate your life. And for ExaCC, this tool is dbaascli. It manages many aspects of the ExaCC layers. And in this blog, we focus on the clone remote PDB with dbaascli! The environment used for this blog is : Server Name…