Hello everyone my name Zulqarnain Hayat and welcome to upgrade oracle 11g to 12c course This course is designed to give knowledge and skills needed to upgrade Oracle databases using Linux and windows platform. As a DBA, it’s your primary job to upgrade Oracle databases and when Oracle releases new versions. This course starts with Oracle 11g upgrade and further upgrade from  11g to 12c upgrade.

The course is mainly designed for working DBAs who are responsible to upgrade databases from 11g to 12c. Right now, as Oracle has released 12c database version, all the companies are moving to 12c Database version. This directly impacts DBAs where they have to showcase skills and upgrade the environment. This course we will go step by step.

Following are the high level order to upgrade from 11G to 12C using Linux.

Part- 1

 High level steps to upgrade from Oracle 11G to 12C using Oracle Linux 7.4

Step-1   Download Oracle Linux 7.6 , Oracle 11G and 12C Software

Step-2   Install Oracle Linux 7.6 Step by Step

Step-3   Basic Host Configuration of Linux Server

Step-4   Setup Oracle Perquisites on Linux Server

Step-5   Install Oracle 11G Software

Step-6   Configure Listener using NETCA

Step-7   Create database TESTDB using DBCA

Step-8   Install Oracle 12C Software only

Step-9   Run Pre-upgrade SQL Scripts

Step-10 Upgrade 11G to 12C using DBUA

Step-11 Go Live

Part-2

Upgrade 11G to 12C using Windows platform.

Step-1   Download windows 2012 , Oracle 11G,Patch 11.2.0.4 and 12C Software

Step-2   Install windows 2012 Step by Step

Step-3   Install Oracle 11G Software on windows

Step-4   Install Oracle patch 11.2.0.4 Software on windows

Step-5   Install Oracle 12C Software only

Step-6   Run Pre-upgrade SQL Scripts

Step-7 Upgrade 11G to 12C using DBUA

Step-8 Go Live

                 Note: Each Step has own sequence of installation