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Upgrading Oracle APEX

Oracle APEX 21.1 was released on May 12th, and upgrading has become significantly easier, allowing for a production instance upgrade with minimal downtime. The process involves downloading, unzipping, and running a single command, resulting in only 5 minutes of downtime. The installation is now largely autonomous, with ORDS managing traffic during the upgrade phases.

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Upgrading Oracle APEX

Oracle APEX 21.1 was released on May 12th, and upgrading has become significantly easier, allowing for a production instance upgrade with minimal downtime. The process involves downloading, unzipping, and running a single command, resulting in only 5 minutes of downtime. The installation is now largely autonomous, with ORDS managing traffic during the upgrade phases.

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Upgrading Oracle APEX has never been easier

On May 12th Oracle APEX 21.1 was released.

This post is not about why Oracle APEX 21.1 is worth an upgrade. You can see for yourself if you like the improvements
in the Release Notes. Some companies upgrade once a year, some wait for the patch set bundle, and some upgrade
very fast.

We upgraded our production instance this weekend. I blogged about how we do the upgrades and try to minimize
downtime in the past. But upgrades have become even easier!

While the Oracle APEX kept running; 15 minutes install which of 5 minutes downtime, and we were done!

Note: it's always good to read the installation guide.

Below what we did:

Download Oracle APEX


Unzip
Go into the directory
Connect to the Oracle Database with SQLcl or SQLPlus
Run 1 command:

@apexins.sql SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/

That was it! ... the installation did everything for us... and again this was in a live environment!
ORDS knows now that an APEX install is busy and suspends traffic for a certain time and next it comes up again:

Phase 1: no downtime
Phase 2 and 3: small downtime during phase 3 switch:
And done:

During Phase 3 downtime, I copied the new images folder.

I believe it wasn't really necessary as everything was working, but I did run the ORDS validate after the APEX install
just to check it (while ORDS was still running):
And the proof of the max 5 minutes downtime:

I'm really impressed by the install and upgrade, it's basically an autonomous process these days 😀

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