The last post looked into how to upgrade PostgreSQL to a new minor version. In this post I’ll look into how to upgrade PostgreSQL to a new major version. This is not as simple as just installing the binaries and start the instance from there. For major upgrades there are two possibilities: dump the old version and restore into the…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve tried Windows 10 one month ago, and I had to roll back because VirtualBox failed to create host-only interfaces. Today, it forced me to upgrade again, so I tried a little further… and finally rolled back. Here is the list of issues I’ve seen in one hour of Windows 10 At boot I had the…
To remove an agent in the previous Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12c versions, you first had to delete its targets, stop the agent, and remove the host target. Only then were you able to remove the agent. In version 12.1.0.4, the decommission agent feature has been greatly improved. From the agent menu, you select the new feature Agent Decommission: The…
We planned to do our full production upgrade in a weekend – and one part was the replacement of FAST by xPlore. As we had to index more than 10 millions objects, we had to find a solution where the full repository would be indexed by Monday morning. Since we used a clone of production to validate and test our…
In this blog post, I will describe how to upgrade from Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.3 to OEM 12.1.0.4.0. I have already described the main new features of Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 version in an earlier post (Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – the new features). The first pre-requisite is to apply the patch 11061801 on the repository database in…
The new Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 release migration makes it necessary for the DBA to migrate the old agent version to 12.1.0.4. If your infrastructure has a huge number of agents and if you want to apply the agent patches to the upgraded agents, this might be a very time-consuming job. However, there is a way to realize the…
A few weeks ago, we finished a Documentum upgrade at a customer site. Now, after having analyzed and made a status point (we do that after each upgrade project to optimize our procedures and skills) it is time to share our experiences. In this post and in the ones that will follow we will describe which issues we were confronted…
