Re: going from 12.2 to 18c

If you are using Goldengate, you must also upgrade that to 18, earlier versions will not work. Not sure if that’s mentioned in the video.

Thanks,
Andy

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 19:27, Andy Wattenhofer <watt0012_at_umn.edu> wrote:

> 18.1 is said to be the same release as what would have been called
> 12.2.0.2. It is just that they switched the naming convention in there.
> All of your questions are answered in this reference from Mike Dietrich on
> the topic: https://youtu.be/pmyxUzs6TVM
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 1:16 PM Patrice sur GMail <
> patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Possibly foolish question, but at some point Oracle claimed the quarterly
>> patches were going to change the version numbers of database instances.
>>
>> Did anyone run into problems upgrading from 12.2 to 18.3 or 18.4? Or is
>> 18c just 12c with a different versioning style (YY instead of version
>> number because they didn't want to use 13).
>>
>> If 18 and 19 are just 12c with a different name, it's tempting to just
>> move to 18c as it it was a patch.
>>
>> (I know it would be like going from 12.1. to 12.2 etc.)
>>
>> -- Patrice
>>
>

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