utltz_upg_apply script hangs while shutting down the Oracle Database

Posted on by Ahmed Abdel Fattah

I was upgrading one Oracle Database from 12.2.0.1 to 19.23 on Windows platform manually. While upgrading the time zone files (from 26 to 43) and running the utltz_upg_apply.sql it hangs while shutting down the database for the first time.This is the last line displayed in the log file:utltz_upg_apply is ready to update to RDBMS DSTv43 … Continue reading utltz_upg_apply script hangs while shutting down the Oracle Database

Oracle Database 21c Creation via DBCA hangs at 36%

Posted on by Ahmed Abdel Fattah

Background I installed Oracle Database 21c on Windows 10 successfully. See the following video for the detailed installation steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFovPSi8FKw After that I tried to create a sample database using the dbca (Database Configuration Assistant), but it hangs at 36%, as indicated in the following screen shot: If we examined the dbca log file: We … Continue reading Oracle Database 21c Creation via DBCA hangs at 36%