In this blog post I will show how to identify and fix the root cause of a failed Grid Infrastructure upgrade to 23ai and how to complete the upgrade to get the VM Cluster back to the AVAILABLE state.
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ExaCC: Upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 23ai using OCI CLI
In May 2024 Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle 23ai on ExaCC. In this blog post, I will upgrade an existing VM Cluster to 23ai using the OCI CLI.
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When a new database is deployed on ExaCC, all nodes of the VM cluster are considered. But sometimes a multi-instance database is not required, for example for DEV or non-business critical databases. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to handle this requirement with dbaascli.
Continue readingExaCC: Oracle Home deployment fails with DBAAS-60018
In this blog post, I am going to describe a strange error with OPatch while I was trying to deploy a new Oracle Home to one of our VM clusters.
Continue readingDatapatch fails with ORA-27476
Today I stumbled about a very strange error while applying a release update to a 19c database. Datapatch fails with an ORA-27476 error. In this blog post, I want to show how to get rid of this error and how to identify objects in the database which may cause it.
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