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Planning for MySQL 5.7 End of Life with AWS Aurora

Planning for MySQL 5.7 End of Life with AWS Aurora


If you are one of the many MySQL 5.7 RDS Aurora customers, you will have received notification that MySQL 5.7 will ...

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Database Upgrade Fails With “unexpected error in validate_credentials”

Database Upgrade Fails With “unexpected error in validate_credentials”


This is a blog post about an issue that can occur during a database upgrade and produces a misleading error message. If ...

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AutoUpgrade: Plug Noarchive Non-CDB Database as Upgraded PDB


The Database AutoUpgrade utility has been slowly developing its capability to cover all possibilities of database ...

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