RDBMS -- Oracle Database Event in İstanbul with Oracle, GTech and Techdata / Releases, Patching, Upgrades, 21C & 23C

Last week, we (GTech, Oracle and Techdata) organized a database event in Istanbul..  

In this event, I shared our expertise (along with the key strategies) in areas like database release management, database support, patching and upgrade. Although it was a private event for the key customers, the hall was full. There was a great  interest in our event.

It was a physical event and we found that opportunity to meet the Oracle customers face to face. We discussed the future of Oracle and the things that "we" (oracle users) need to do for being aligned with the latest enhancements in the RDBMS area..

I have also gone through the key new features of 21C and mentioned that, the next long term support release will be 23C.

I shed a light on new patching and upgrades methods and presented some new methods on these contexts.. Things like zero downtime patching,  and zero downtime upgrade... 

I tried to give some insights for explaining the methodology behind the scenes to make the community be familiar with the latest enhancements in the area of database patching and upgrade.. (After all, being in the latest code level requires patching & upgrade. These things just start with patching...)

I also tried to give some background info for the bugfix and development processes that are operated in the development side of Oracle.. The main code line, the branches, the delivery of Oracle releases, the one-offs, merge patches, the release updates, revisions and all that.

I found some room in my speech to include Oracle Support related things as well.. (escalations, requests for backport, inclusion and stuff like that)

We know that 23 is not released yet. That 's too bad but! we know those new features of 21C are the harbinger of the features of 23C..

I will not go any further and explain the things I just mentioned in more details here, because I already decided to write a separate blog post about these subjects.. (-- just after finishing this one:)

Okay.. Sharing the pictures below as memories;