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How to patch your ODA to 19.30?

Introduction Patch 19.30 is now available for Oracle Database Appliance series. Let’s find out what’s new and how to apply this patch. What’s new? The real new feature is the possibility to rollback a server component patch done(…)

Grid Clusterware 26ai 2 node RAC upgrade from 19c rolling forward

This is third part of 26ai migration blog. We will upgrade here 2 node Clusterware with ASM in 19c. We will use newest 23.26.1 GoldImages from oracle support. This tutorial showing main steps how to perform upgrade, its not(…)

Production-ready GoldenGate REST client in Python

Updated in June 2026, based on the latest version of the client. In this blog, I provide GoldenGate administrators with a fully working, production-ready Python client to efficiently handle GoldenGate REST API calls. From extract creation to user(…)

Database upgrade to AI Database 26ai (23.26.1) for Linux x86-64 upgrade from 19C in 3 steps using gold images.

This tutorial showing simple database upgrade to 26ai using traditional method and autoupgrade tool, For operational databases please properly test and plan your upgrade. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/26/fppad/upgrading-oracle-database-software.html This is one from 3 Articles related to 26.1 upgrade:(…)

GoldenGate REST API basics with Python

Oracle GoldenGate REST API has been around for quite some time now, but I’ve yet to see it used in practice at customers. Every time I tried to introduce it, it was some sort of novelty. Mainly because DBAs(…)

GoldenGate 26ai: Installation and new administration features

Earlier this week, Oracle Database 26ai was released, but GoldenGate 26ai is also available now ! New features were added, but before diving into some of these changes in an upcoming blog post, let’s see what changed from a(…)

Securing an Existing Unsecure GoldenGate Installation

You might have an existing unsecure GoldenGate installation that you would like to secure, whether it’s for security reasons or because you would like to dissociate the installation and its securing process. After searching everywhere in the Oracle documentation(…)