With GoldenGate 19c and 21c Premier Support coming to an end in April 2026, time is ticking for many clients with old installations of GoldenGate. Fortunately, Oracle provides a Migration utility (patch 37274898 / KB100447 in MOS) that is designed to migrate your old Classic Architecture to a brand new Microservices Architecture in GoldenGate 23ai. As mentioned in a previous…
Classic Extracts have been deprecated in GoldenGate 19c and shouldn’t be part of your GoldenGate replications for a long time now. Yet, some customers still have them, and with GoldenGate 19c support coming to an end in a few months, it is high time you upgrade to GoldenGate 23ai. However, GoldenGate 23ai doesn’t support classic extract, and the migration utility…
At the moment, three versions of GoldenGate are still under Premier Support, but this will very soon change, with GoldenGate 19c and 21c coming out of Premier Support in April this year ! I give below the official Oracle support end dates, as per 2026. GoldenGate Release Release date End of Premier Support End of Extended Support 23ai May 2024…
Introduction When wanting to migrate from the big red to PostgreSQL, most of the time you can afford the downtime of the export/import process and starting from something fresh. It is simple and reliable. Ora2pg being one of the go-to tools for that. But sometimes, you can afford the downtime, either because the database is critical for business operations or…
If you’ve ever had to deal with MongoDB after years (or even decades) of working with SQL, you’ve probably realized that querying JSON documents can sometimes be painful, to say the least. In response to this, Oracle (and others) use a not-so-native adaptation of SQL to query JSON documents. And if you’ve ever had to deal with these SQL-based JSON…
The arrival of JBoss EAP 8 marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Red Hat’s Enterprise Application Server. For many organizations still running on JBoss EAP 7.x, the upgrade brings not only new features but also strategic changes aligned with the modernization of the Java ecosystem.Let’s explore what really changed and what you need to know before moving forward.…
The ZDM 21.5 version brings some new functions like encrypting automatically now the TEMP, SYSTEM, SYSAUX and UNDO tablespaces. There is no need to do it manually any more after the ZDM migration, ZDM will take care of it on its own. Little problem, this is adding a new bug because the temporary database needs to be restarted to drop…
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…
I have been blogging about ZDM Physical Online migration with noncdb to cdb conversion. As you could read in my previous article, the target database name on CDB level should be the same as the source database, knowing physical online migration is using Data Guard. In our case, at customer, we wanted to group the new migrated PDBs is some…
I have been sharing my experience migrating On-Premises database to ExaCC using ZDM Physical Online, see my previous blog : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/zdm-physical-online-migration-a-success-story/ In this blog I will share how you can make a Dry Run migration on your own without impacting the source On-Premises database, so without having any downtime during the migration steps. In this blog, I will just mention…
If you read my previous blog, you know why I’m doing a migration 🙂 If not let’s explain it a bit, since 1 year I play with M-Files using an VM in the cloud, but I reached the limits and running a lot of Vaults start to become costly for a simple playground.Additionally as the VM is stopped during the…
I have been recently blogging about ZDM Physical Online Migration where I was explaining this migration method and preparing customer On-Premises to ExaCC migration. See my blog, https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/physical-online-migration-to-exacc-with-oracle-zero-downtime-migration-zdm/. I have now had the opportunity to migrate customer database and would like to share, in this blog, this success story. Clarifications First of all, I would encourage you to read the…
