Master Note For Oracle Database Upgrades and Migrations (Doc ID 1152016.1)

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Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.0.6.0 and later

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later

Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later

Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later

Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

This Master Note is intended to provide an index and references to the most frequently used My Oracle Support Notes with respect to Oracle Database Upgrade and Migration. This Master Note is subdivided into categories to allow for easy access and reference to notes that are applicable to your area of interest within Upgrade and Migration.

Scope

This note serves as a guide through the various stages of upgrading/migrating a database.

It is applicable to upgrade/migration done via DBUA or the manual method.

It assumes you have already Installed Oracle software.

The intended audience is from junior DBA's to senior DBA's

This will cover the following versions of these products:

Oracle Server - Version: 8.0.6.x though 18c

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General

​ ​Note 2485457.1​​ AutoUpgrade Tool

​ ​Note 1561791.1​​ Upgrade / Downgrade Assistant: Oracle Database/Client

​ ​Note 419550.1​​ Different Upgrade Methods For Upgrading Your Database

​ ​Note 551141.1​​ Database Server Upgrade/Downgrade Compatibility Matrix

​ ​Note 730365.1​​ Oracle Database Upgrade Path Reference List

​ ​Note 455744.1​​ Best Practices to Minimize Downtime During Upgrade

​ ​Note 739485.1​​ How to estimate the time required to upgrade a database ?

​ ​Note 1515747.1​​ Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) Upgrade New Features

​ ​Note 1493645.1​​ Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) DBUA : Understanding New Changes With All New 12.1 DBUA

​ ​Note 757245.1​​ Can you Upgrade RDBMS and Convert From 32-bit to 64-bit Binaries Directly on Linux or Windows based Intel Platforms Using the Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA)

​ ​Note 1320966.1​​ Things to Consider Before Upgrading to 11.2.0.2 to Avoid Poor Performance or Wrong Results

​ ​Note 1392633.1​​ Things to Consider Before Upgrading to 11.2.0.3 to Avoid Poor Performance or Wrong Results

​ ​Note 733205.1​​ Migration Of An Oracle Database Across OS Platforms (Generic Platform)

​ ​Note 785351.1​​ Oracle 11gR2 Upgrade Companion

​ ​Note 601807.1​​ Oracle 11gR1 Upgrade Companion

​ ​Note 466181.1​​ 10g Upgrade Companion

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 19c​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 18c​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 12c Release 1 (12.2)​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1)​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2)​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1)​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2)​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1)​​

​ ​Oracle Database Upgrade Guide 9i Release 2 (9.2)  ​​

How To

​ ​Note 251.1​​ Database Upgrade Planner from 10.2 to 11.2

​ ​Note 264.1​​ Database Upgrade Planner from 9.2 to 11.2

​ ​Note 732897.1​​ How to Log Good Service Requests for Database Upgrade/Migration Issues

​ ​Note 1503653.1​​ Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)

​ ​Note 1516557.1​​ Complete Checklist for Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) using DBUA

​ ​Note 1932762.1​​ Complete checklist for 12c Upgrade PDBs - Everything At Once (Full CDB Upgrade)

​ ​Note 1933391.1​​ Complete checklist for 12c R1 PDB upgrade (Upgrading single/multiple PDB)

​ ​Note 1933011.1​​ Complete checklist for DBUA upgrade from 12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.n

​ ​Note 837570.1​​ Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to 11gR2

​ ​Note 870814.1​​ Complete checklist to upgrade the database to 11gR2 using DBUA

​ ​Note.1276368.1​​ Complete checklist for out-of-place manual upgrade from previous 11.2.0.N version to the latest 11.2.0.N patchset.

​ ​Note 1377613.1​​ In-Place Upgrade on UNIX For Single Instance 11gR2 Database

​ ​Note 429825.1​​ Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to 11gR1

​ ​Note 556477.1​​ Complete Checklist for Upgrades to 11gR1 using DBUA

​ ​Note 316889.1​​ Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to 10gR2

​ ​Note 263809.1​​ Complete checklist for manual upgrades to 10gR1 (10.1.0.x)

​ ​Note 159657.1​​ Complete Upgrade Checklist for Manual Upgrades from 8.X / 9.0.1 to Oracle9iR2 (9.2.0)

​ ​Note 117048.1​​ How to Upgrade from Standard to Enterprise Edition

​ ​Note 139642.1​​ Converting An Enterprise Edition Database To Standard Edition

​ ​Note 1437019.1​​ How To Prevent Apex From Being Installed During DB Upgrade

​ ​Note 1516616.1​​ Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) DBUA in Silent mode

​ ​Note 790559.1​​ RMAN Restore of Backups as Part of a Database Upgrade

​ ​Note 2022820.1​​ Upgrade to 12c database using RMAN Duplicate with NOOPEN clause

​ ​Note 2189854.1​​ Complete Checklist for Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) using DBUA

​ ​Note 2173141.1​​ Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to Non-CDB Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

​ ​Note 2240413.1​​ Complete Checklist for upgrading Oracle 12.1 Container Database (CDB) to Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) using DBUA

​ ​Note 2171026.1​​ How to Upgrade Pluggable Databases (PDBs) Sequentially to 12.2

​ ​Note 2243613.1​​ Oracle Database Upgrade Known issues - 12.2

​ ​Note 2316310.1​​ Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Upgrade New Features

​ ​Note 2418045.1​​ Oracle DB 18c - Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to Non-CDB Oracle Database 18c

​ ​Note 2421552.1​​ Oracle 18c - Complete Checklist for upgrading Oracle 12.x Container Database (CDB) to Oracle Database 18c (18.x) using DBUA

​ ​Note 2422037.1​​ Oracle 18c - DBUA In Silent Mode

​ ​Note 2418576.1​​ Oracle 18c - Complete Checklist for Upgrading to Oracle Database 18c (18.x) using DBUA

​ ​Note 2422161.1​​ Oracle 18c - Complete checklist for Manual Upgrade for Multitenant Architecture Oracle Databases from 12.1.x.x to 18.x.x.x

​ ​Note 2416661.1​​ Oracle DB 18c - How to Downgrade a 18c Non CDB Database to Previous Release

​ ​Note 2419368.1​​ Oracle DB 18c - How to Downgrade a 18c Container Database to Previous Release

​ ​Note 2421060.1​​ Oracle 18c - How to Downgrade a Single Pluggable Oracle Database ( PDB ) from 18c Database to previous release

​ ​Note 2414935.1​​ Patches to apply before upgrading Oracle GI and DB to 18c or downgrading to previous release

​ ​Note 2545064.1​​ Oracle 19c - Complete Checklist for Upgrading to Oracle Database 19c (19.x) using DBUA

​ ​Note 2539778.1​​ Oracle 19c - Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to Non-CDB Oracle Database 19c

​ ​Note 2549866.1​​ Oracle 19c - Complete checklist for Manual Upgrade for upgrading Oracle 12.x, 18c Container database (CDB) to Oracle 19c (19.x)

​ ​Note 2543981.1​​ Oracle 19c - Complete Checklist for upgrading Oracle 12c, 18c Container Database (CDB) to Oracle 19c Release using DBUA

Diagnostic Tools

​ ​DB Upgrade/Migration-Troubleshooting Tool​​

​ ​Note 884522.1​​ How to Download and Run Oracle's Database Pre-Upgrade Utility

​ ​Note 556610.1​​ Script to Collect DB Upgrade/Migrate Diagnostic Information (dbupgdiag.sql)

​ ​Note 212588.1​​ How To Investigate/Diagnose Hanging Issues When Upgrading or Migrating (includes DBMA & DBUA)

​ ​Note 577775.1​​ Dbua or Migration Is Hanging What to do?

​ ​Note 428118.1​​ How to enable Java code tracing for DBUA, DBCA and NETCA?

Known Issues

Preupgrade Tool Issues

​ ​Note 407031.1​​ ORA-01403 no data found while running utlu102i.sql/utlu102x.sql on 8174 database

​ ​Note 271733.1​​ ORA-600 [17069] During Upgrade Using Database Upgrade Assistant, Utlu101i.sql or Utlu102i.sql

​ ​Note 549276.1​​ Utlu102i.sql Shows "WARNING: The database has not been patched to release 10.1.0.4.2" Showed

​ ​Note 370825.1​​ UTLU102I.SQL Reports That Already-Installed Components Need To Be Installed

​ ​Note 797750.1​​ "WARNING: --> Database contains schemas with objects dependent on network packages" When Running utlu111i.sql

​ ​Note 1473478.1​​ Pre-upgrade script utlu112i.sql errors with ORA-06550 and ORA-00942       

​ ​Note 742573.1​​ Ora-01436: Connect By Loop In User Data" Running utlu102i.Sql/utlu102x.sql Against Database (Before Upgrading)

​ ​Note 843899.1​​ DB Upgrade Throws ORA-25153: Temporary Tablespace Is Empty                                                                                

During Upgrade Issues

​ ​Note 412271.1​​ ORA-600 [22635] and ORA-600 [KOKEIIX1] Reported While Upgrading Or Patching Databases To 10.2.0.3

​ ​Note 579523.1​​ ORA-600 [22635], ORA-600 [KOKEIIX1], ORA-7445 [KOPESIZ] and OCI-21500 [KOXSIHREAD1] Reported While Upgrading To 11.1.0.6 Or 11.1.0.7

​ ​Note 1077748.1​​ Upgrading to 11.1.0.7 Crashes with ORA-600, arguments: [kokeeiix3], [3]

​ ​Note 1081627.1​​ Upgrade to 11.1.0.7 Cancels with ORA-07445. ORA-600[QCTOSTIIX1] Showed at the Alert file.

​ ​Note 761711.1​​ Upgrade From 10.2.0.3 To 11.1.0.7 Using DBUA Throws ORA-600 [kksfbc-reparse-infinite-loop] Error During Update to SYS.AQ_SRVNTFN_TABLE

​ ​Note 1067072.1​​ ORA-600 [kzdugt], [2147483629] While Upgrading From 11gR1 To 11gR2

​ ​Note 1077748.1​​ Upgrading to 11.1.0.7 or 11.2.0.1 Crashes with ORA-600, arguments: [kokeeiix3], [3] or ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [qmxdGetMatchingChildren_int]

​ ​Note 464716.1​​ ORA-1722 when running Oracle 11g DBUA utility

​ ​Note 730057.1​​ Upgrading to 11g Fails with ORA-01722 invalid number

​ ​Note 859576.1​​ Upgrading to 11gR1 Stops With ORA-01722 invalid number

​ ​Note 744693.1​​ ORA-00001 For SYS.DIANA_VERSION$ During RDBMS Upgrade From 11.1.0.6 To 11.1.0.7

​ ​Note 845768.1​​ ORA-19905 LOG_ARCHIVE_FORMAT During Upgrade

​ ​Note 293658.1​​ 10.1 or 10.2 Patchset Install Getting ORA-29558 JAccelerator (NCOMP) And ORA-06512

​ ​Note 557242.1​​ Upgrade Gives Ora-29558 Error Despite of JAccelerator Has Been Installed

​ ​Note 472959.1​​ "Ora-20000 : Insufficient privileges to analyze an object in Dictionary" During Catupgrd.Sql

​ ​Note 470667.1​​ ORA-1422 During Upgrade To 10.2 or 11.1

​ ​Note 554983.1​​ Error During Migration To 11gR1: Database Is Using An Old Timezone File Version

​ ​Note 788087.1​​ When Running Catupgrd.Sql, Exits With ORA-00904/ORA-00942

​ ​Note 802694.1​​ Catupgrd.Sql Hang While Running dbms_metadata_hack.load_xsd('kusmv.xsd')

​ ​Note 1070951.1​​ 11.1.0.6.0->11.2.0.1.0 UPGRADE FAILS WITH ORA-22371 REFERENCING XDB.XDB$PROPERTY_T, VERSION 1

​ ​Note 1104643.1​​ Upgrading Database to 11.2 Fails with ORA-01422

​ ​Note 1100828.1​​ 11gr2 Upgrade, Re-Running catupgrd.sql Causes Ora-00001 Errors

​ ​Note 1051368.1​​ Startup Upgrade Gives ORA-202 ORA-17505 ORA-15061 ORA-600 [kccgtt_1]

​ ​Note 1091252.1​​ ORA-31114 "XDB configuration has been deleted or is corrupted" during upgrade to 11.2

​ ​Note 1148285.1​​ "ORA-01166: File number 101 is larger than MAXDATAFILES (100)" While Upgrading To 11.1.0.7 Or 11.2

​ ​Note 1326522.1​​ ORA-7445 [qmxarFindPartition] during database upgrade to 11.2

​ ​Note 1329606.1​​ 10.2 Upgrade to 11.2 Hangs While Running Catupgrd.sql

​ ​Note 1425763.1​​ During A Database Upgrade To 11.2, Gathering Dictionary Statistics Takes Too Long (catupgrd.sql, cmpupend.sql)

​ ​Note 1465852.1​​ ORA-00942 reports during upgrade to 11.2.0.3 using manual or DBUA

​ ​Note 1466082.1​​ ORA-02095: Specified Initialization Parameter Cannot Be Modified

​ ​Note 1486277.1​​ SELECT TO_NUMBER('MUST_PATCH_TIMEZONE_FILE_VERSION_ON_NEW_ORACLE_HOME')

Post Upgrade Issues

​ ​Note 438210.1​​ Synonyms Become Invalid Since Upgrading To 10g

​ ​Note 456845.1​​ UTLU102S.SQL May Show Different Results Than Select From DBA_REGISTRY

​ ​Note 753041.1​​ How To Diagnose Components With NON VALID Status In DBA_REGISTRY After an Upgrade

​ ​Note 578841.1​​ How To Find What Objects Are Keeping Catalog And Catproc In Dba_Registry Invalid

​ ​Note 443706.1​​ After Migrate From 9.2.0.7 To 10.2.0.3 We Get Ora-04065 On Plitblm

​ ​Note 730136.1​​ OCI-21500 When Running UTLRP After A Successful Upgrade.

​ ​Note 782735.1​​ Oracle Database Server Component Invalid After Upgrade To 10.2.0.4, 11.1.0.6 Or 11.1.0.7

​ ​Note 978040.1​​ ORA-04045 ORA-04064 ORA-06508 ORA-06512 ERRORS RUNNING utlu111s.sql DURING UPGRADE TO FROM 9.2.0 TO 11.1.0

​ ​Note 1313429.1​​ Is it required to re-install the UTL_* packages after an upgrade to 11.2?

​ ​Note 1543850.1​​ Post Upgrade Scripts - utlu112s.sql & catuppst.sql report many Errors after upgrading Database from 10.2.0.X to 11.2.0.X

DBUA Specific Issues

​ ​Note 315184.1​​ Database Upgrade Assistant Hangs On Collecting Server Information

​ ​Note 567037.1​​ DBUA hangs at 82% for More than an Hour When Upgrading APPS DB to 10GR2

​ ​Note 339887.1​​ Failed Upgrade ''Dbua Thinks This Is A Rerun Operation'' ORA-01507

​ ​Note 603015.1​​ DBUA Fails with ORA-32004 and "Dbua Thinks This Is A Rerun Operation"

​ ​Note 729909.1​​ Upgrading to 11.1.0 and DBUA reports ORA-4023 On SYS.STANDARD

​ ​Note 789779.1​​ DBUA Error ORA-04031 unable to allocate 4120 bytes of shared memory, ORA-01034 ORACLE not available, ORA-00600 internal error code, arguments [504]

​ ​Note 271733.1​​ ORA-600 [17069] During Upgrade Using Database Upgrade Assistant, Utlu101i.sql or Utlu102i.sql

​ ​Note 308377.1​​ "ORA-01031 Insufficient Privileges" During An Upgrade Using DBUA On Unix/Linux

​ ​Note.386855.1​​ 'startup migrate' failed with ORA-64 while upgrading to 10.2.0.2 with DBUA

​ ​Note 816457.1​​ DBUA unable to connect to the database for upgrade

​ ​Note 431437.1​​ 10g DBUA Failed To Bring Up 9i Database. ORA-00119 ORA-00132 ORA-01078

​ ​Note 604248.1​​ DBUA Fails with ORA-0119 ORA-0132 ORA-1078 Upgrading to 10gR2

​ ​Note 391283.1​​ ORA-27054 NFS error while using DBUA to upgrade to 10gR2

​ ​Note 444148.1​​ Upgrading to 10gr2 Using Dbua Stops With An Alarm Sign At Step1

​ ​Note 737400.1​​ Ora-01408 Error Upgrading from 9i to 11g using Dbua

​ ​Note 559075.1​​ Dbua Won't Find Init<SID>.Ora During Upgrade Although It Is At The Right Location

​ ​Note 1321814.1​​ Underscore (Hidden) Parameters will not be retained after upgrade using DBUA

​ ​Note 1078388.1​​ Upgrdade to 11.2 via DBUA fails on ASMCA error on a database with no RAC or ASM

​ ​Note 980693.1​​ 11gR2 DBUA States "The CEP File does not provide the version directive"

​ ​Note 1066828.1​​ 11GR2 DBUA ORA-06550 PLS-00201 IDENTIFIER SYS.DBMS_JAVA MUST BE DECLARED

​ ​Note 1067422.1​​ DBUA ERROR: DOES NOT PROVIDE VERSION DIRECTIVE

​ ​Note 1066116.1​​ DBUA RAISES ORA-942 WHILE UPGRADING EXPRESSION FILTER COMPONENT

​ ​Note 1304849.1​​ DBUA: Database Is Missing From List Of Candidate Databases To Be Upgraded

​ ​Note 1364808.1​​ DBUA fails with error "Database is not open, restart database in open mode and try again" when upgrading from 10.2 to 11.2

​ ​Note 1466447.1​​ Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) Displays A Dialog Box When There Are Special Characters In The Pfile

​ ​Note 1477555.1​​ DBUA FAILS WITH "FOR INPUT STRING: 8,192" ERROR

​ ​Note 1453545.1​​ Database Upgrade using DBUA failed with invalid specification for system parameter LOCAL_LISTENER

​ ​Note 1427179.1​​ 11.2.0.3 DBUA Hangs While Specifying ASM Disk To FRA

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​ ​Note 166650.1​​ Working Effectively With Global Customer Support

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​ ​Note 854428.1​​ Patch Set Updates for Oracle Products

​ ​Note 1061295.1​​ Patch Set Updates - One-off Patch Conflict Resolution

​ ​Note 268895.1​​ Oracle Database Server Patchset Information, Versions: 8.1. 7 to 11.2.0

​ ​Note 161549.1​​ Oracle Database Server and Networking Patches for Microsoft Platforms

​ ​Note 161818.1​​ Oracle Database (RDBMS) Releases Support Status Summary

​ ​Information on Security Patch Updates (SPU's)​​

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​ ​NOTE:1520299.1​​ - Master Note For Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) Database/Client Installation/Upgrade/Migration Standalone Environment (Non-RAC)

​ ​NOTE:1351051.2​​ - Information Center: Install and Configure Database Server/Client Installations

​ ​NOTE:1351112.2​​ - Information Center: Upgrading and Migration Oracle Database

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