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Autoupgrade : How to Upgrade to Oracle Database 19c and Migrate(Cross platform (same endian)) to a PDB Using Refreshable Clone PDBs . (Doc ID 3080685.1)

Last updated on APRIL 15, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This documents helps in upgrading the database(non-cdb) and migrating (across same endian) to a PDB using autoupgrade .
Refreshable clone PDBs does not work for cross-endian migrations (like AIX to Linux), but cross-platform should work fine (like Windows to Linux).
Below mentioned is an example of database upgrade and migrate from Windows to Linux platform . Using AutoUpgrade ,it upgrades and converts the non-CDB to PDB as part of the upgrade process .

Solution

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In this Document
Goal
Solution
 Refreshable Clone PDBs 
 Database Considerations
 At Target CDB
 Sample configuration file
 Autoupgrade -analyze  
  Autoupgrade -fixups
 Autoupgrade -deploy 
 Limitations / Restrictions
References

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