Chapter 17. Upgrading to 12c

Phew! So, we are at the end of the book, having taken you through all the areas you need to be confident in using, administering, and developing in OBIEE. It's a lot to take in, but also remember that this is a starting point. Many of the previous chapters could be expanded to become books in their own right!

We are aware that many people reading this will have already used a previous version of OBIEE, so for our final chapter, let's look at the upgrade process for the most fundamental parts of the system, from a version-11g implementation to 12c, that is, the Repository and Presentation Catalog.

The upgrade process for this is extremely straightforward as Oracle has provided an easy-to-use upgrade tool that we will step through in this chapter. We are helped in that user-interface and infrastructure changes are not as big from 11g to 12c as they were from older versions to 10g.

If you are upgrading a current live implementation, the wider...