Oracle12c Upgrade

SAP has certified Oracle12c for Business Suite and present DB’s now can be upgraded to Oracle12c.

To upgrade to Oracle12c in your environment you need to go through below phases for smooth upgrade . Documents have been published for each phase so that it’s easy to identify all the phases and plan to upgrade to Oracle12c can be smooth

1. Prerequisites and Upgrade checklist

Please refer to document on SCN:

ORACLE 12C upgrade Prerequisites and Checklist

2. Migrate the Oracle software from user ora<dbsid> to user oracle

This step is optional but make sure that Oracle12c installation is done with user oracle

Please refer to document on SCN:

ORACLE 12c Upgrade Migrate the Oracle software to oracle from orasid

3.   Preupgrade steps and preparation on Source System and Database

Please refer to document on SCN:

ORACLE12C Upgrade: Preupgrade steps

4.  Database Upgrade steps

Please refer to document on SCN:

ORACLE12C Upgrade: Database Upgrade

5.  Post Upgrade Tasks

Please refer to document on SCN:

ORACLE12C Upgrade: Post Upgrade Tasks

6. Updating the Oracle Instant Client

Please refer to document on SCN:

ORACLE12C Upgrade: Updating the Oracle Instant Client