Upgrade to Oracle 19c Standard Edition and Ensure High Availability

By the end of the year, you’ll be affected by changes Oracle is making. If you’re on Oracle Database 11g, support as you’ve known it will end; if you’re on Standard Edition, you’ll lose RAC when you upgrade to Oracle 19c.

Now is the time to modernize your database environment. But when it comes to your Oracle 19c upgrade, you have more options than Oracle would have you believe.

According to Oracle, you can either pay for costly Enterprise Edition or go with the new Standard Edition High Availability (SE HA). Let’s go over the problems these two choices and the third option that solves them. 

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    • Option one: upgrade to Oracle 19c EE

    This, of course, is Oracle’s first choice for you and you get one guess why that is. Yep – cost. You’ll get almost everything you need, except your IT budget. Given the economic challenges most industries are currently facing, a more affordable option is a better bet, which bring us to your next choice.

    • Option two: downgrade to Oracle 19c SE HA

    You read that correctly. It really is more of a downgrade than an upgrade. This choice comes with a lot of challenges: no disaster recovery, a single point of failure, slow failover time, higher outage times for rolling upgrades and more. Are you willing to take on all that risk?

    The truth is, you have a third option.

    • Option three: make Oracle 19c SE HA a true upgrade

    You can upgrade to Oracle 19c SE HA, using a data replication solution trusted by the Fortune 500 – that’s a fraction of the cost of native tools. And you can use that same solution to fill the functionality gaps in SE HA.

    This approach is more affordable than EE, yet it provides even more critical features, helping you ensure high availability before, during and after your database migrations and upgrades.

     

    Ready to explore option three?

    We’ll set you up with the free, 30-day trial that’ll help you upgrade to Oracle 19c – and easily ensure HA, DR, scalability, data accuracy and more. The end of the year will be here before you know it. With SharePlex® data replication, you can expand your options beyond the high costs of Oracle EE and the high-risk functionality gaps in SE HA.