Recently, I was helping a customer who ran into an issue during an AutoUpgrade workflow where the database shutdown phase appeared to hang indefinitely. The database is hosted on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure at Customer. The shutdown process never completed, even after more than 12 hours. To be clear, it was not…

Hi, We’ve been receiving this question quite often, so I decided to write a blog post about it. Many customers have asked whether CPAT can also be used to analyze migrations to non-Autonomous AI Database targets. Let’s check what the documentation says about it: As you can see, when you use –targetcloud DEFAULT, it will…

We recently encountered an interesting situation shared by our Oracle ACE friend from Korea, Youngmin (Eric) Park.He was attempting to move a 19.27 database that is already running on time zone version 44 (included in the 19.27 RU).As Mike previously blogged, starting with 19.18, 19c RUs include all available DST patches. However, this does not…

UPDATE – February/06/2026 AutoUpgrade release 26.2 is now available on MOS, and the issue with downloading 19.30 has been fixed. —————————————————————————————————- As many of you may already know, Oracle has re-released Release Updates (RUs) 19.29 and 19.30 to address an issue.Additional details are available here. Marcus Vinicius was testing AutoUpgrade (AU) as part of some…

We’re excited to share that CPAT version 26.1.0 is now available as of January 2026. If you’re not familiar with the tool, you’ll find links at the end of this post to previous articles containing everything you need to know. One of my favorite additions is the new checks related to Transportable Tablespaces. You can use them…

As mentioned in my previous blog post, you can now use Transportable Tablespaces to migrate data to Oracle AI Autonomous Database Serverless. You can refer to the documentation for all the steps here. You can refer to this blog post if you plan to use Object Storage. For this test, I will use an Oracle…

As mentioned in my previous blog post, you can now use Transportable Tablespaces to migrate data to Oracle AI Autonomous Database Serverless. You can refer to the documentation for all the steps here and the scripts here. *******UPDATE*******Currently, support is limited to 19c.Support for 26ai will be available soon. For this test, I will use…

As highlighted in the “What’s New for Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless” post from December 2025, a major new enhancement is coming to simplify database migrations to Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless. Oracle is adding support for Transportable Tablespaces, enabling faster and more efficient migrations—especially for large databases. *******UPDATE*******Currently, support is limited to 19c.Support for…

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We’re excited to share that CPAT version 25.11.0 is now available as of December 2025. If you’re not familiar with the tool, you’ll find links at the end of this post to previous articles containing everything you need to know. HTML reports can now be packaged with all required dependencies, allowing them to function without…