Many companies do not want to move, or cannot move to the cloud because of their complex business requirements, so they must upgrade to the latest database version in house. In this course, Oracle 12.2 Upgrade, you will learn the variety of methods and pitfalls to avoid while planning and performing your Oracle upgrade. First, you will learn the reasons Oracle 12 Release 2 upgrades are different than previous upgrades particularly when working with pluggable databases. Next, you will learn the basic upgrade methods utilizing tools such as the database upgrade assistant and the database parallel upgrade utility. Finally, you will learn the differences between an upgrade and a migration, and come away with tools to meet both challenges. When you’re finished with this course, you will have skills and knowledge to upgrade and migrate your database to Oracle 12 release 2 even in the most complex environments.
Author Name: Tim Boles
Author Description:
Tim Boles is an Oracle Database Administrator with over 18 years experience. He has worked with every version of Oracle since version 7. His professional specialties include Operations and Management in high value systems, Oracle database backup & recovery and providing database managed services to clients.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Preparing the Practice Field
  16mins
• Let’s Get Ready to Upgrade
  18mins
• Upgrading the Entire Container Database (CDB)
  17mins
• Upgrading a Pluggable Database (PDB)
  9mins
• Performing Cross-platform Upgrade
  12mins
• Performing Manual Upgrades to Non-CDB Oracle 12.2
  26mins
• Determining Your Upgrade Path
  26mins