{"id":1596,"date":"2015-09-14T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:03:35","slug":"oracle-database-12c-upgrade-hands-on-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/2015\/1596\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Hands On Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I tweeted the download link\u00a0for the Virtual Box OVA file for 12c upgrade Hands on Lab.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOracle Database 12c (12.1.0.2) Upgrade and Migration hands-on Lab\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Zb4eTzw3qL\">http:\/\/t.co\/Zb4eTzw3qL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Biju Thomas (@bijoosX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bijoosX\/status\/642804903379927040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Since 11g free extended support is ending in the next few months, this is the time DBAs are busily planning to upgrade their 11g databases to 12c.<\/p>\n<p>The HOL OVA available in OTN is a great learning tool for all DBAs planning to upgrade to 12c database.\u00a0After you download the 8 zip files to your computer, use 7-zip or similar utility to uncompress the files. Then import the resulting .OVA file to your virtualbox.<\/p>\n<p>Once you start the VM and login as oracle, the screen background pretty much shows the architecture of what is available and what you will learn using the VM.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1597 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HOL1.png?resize=645%2C477&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"HOL1\" width=\"645\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The PDF file included in the zip shows you how to perform 4 lab exercises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HOL2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HOL2.png?resize=848%2C312&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"HOL2\" width=\"848\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition I would also recommend downloading and applying the latest PSU on 12.1.0.2 home \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>With four databases and three software installations readily available, your learning opportunities are unlimited&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default highlight:0 decode:true \">oracle@localhost:~$ tail -5 \/etc\/oratab\n#\nFTEX:\/u01\/app\/oracle\/product\/11.2.0:N\nCDB2:\/u01\/app\/oracle\/product\/12.1.0.2:N\nCDB1:\/u01\/app\/oracle\/product\/12.1.0.1:N\nUPGR:\/u01\/app\/oracle\/product\/11.2.0:N\noracle@localhost:~$<\/pre>\n<p>If you mess up something, don&#8217;t worry &#8211; just re-import the OVA file again&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/apexapps.oracle.com\/pls\/apex\/f?p=44785:141:0:::141:P141_PAGE_ID,P141_SECTION_ID:6,18\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Database 12c Learning Libary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeDietrichDE\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Dietrich<\/a> and Roy Swonger of Oracle for making these HOL available to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I tweeted the download link\u00a0for the Virtual Box OVA file for 12c upgrade Hands on Lab. \u201cOracle Database 12c (12.1.0.2) Upgrade and Migration hands-on Lab\u201d http:\/\/t.co\/Zb4eTzw3qL &mdash; Biju Thomas (@bijoosX) September 12, 2015 Since 11g free extended support is ending in the next few months, this is the time DBAs are busily planning to &#8230; <a title=\"Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Hands On Lab\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/2015\/1596\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Hands On Lab\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oracledb","tag-database-upgrade"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}