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Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 19c is no longer supported in Oracle Database 19c Standard Edition (2). This
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Similarly, the Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant will report an error, if an attempt is made to upgrade an existing Oracle
RAC database to Oracle Database 19c using a Standard Edition Home.

1.Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database offering 

Use Oracle Zero Downtime Migration to migrate from Oracle 18c SE to Oracle Autonomous

2. Upgrade from Oracle RAC Standard Edition (SE) to Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition (EE)

Customers planning to upgrade from an Oracle Database Standard Edition to Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition and preserve the Oracle RAC
Database, should perform the following steps.

Install Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition in a new Home. Choose the "Set up Software only" option.

Choose the "Oracle Real Application Clusters Database Installation" and follow instructions on screen
Choose Database Edition as "Enterprise Edition". Note that you cannot choose "Standard Edition", Else you will get
the error

Once the Home has been installed, execute dbua from the new Enterprise Edition Oracle RAC Enabled home and
choose the SE2 Oracle RAC Database to be upgraded

Click through the steps and complete the upgrade using dbua

Confirm that the previously Standard Edition Database is now Oracle Enterprise Edition
3. Convert Oracle RAC Standard Edition to a Single Instance (Non-RAC) Standard
Edition
Customers planning to convert their Oracle RAC Database to an Oracle Single Instance Database prior to upgrading to
Oracle Database 19c, should perform the following steps

Install a new Single Instance home with either Oracle 18c "Standard Edition" ("Enterprise Edition" can be chosen as
needed). Remember to choose "Set up Software only" as shown in the screen below

Choose "Single instance database installation"

Choose "Standard Edition 2"

Complete the "Single Instance" installation by clicking through the rest of the install screens
 From the existing home, shutdown the database on all instances and drop the database configuration from Oracle
Clusterware Registry
$srvctl stop database -d <dbname>
$srvctl remove service -d <dbname> -s service_name <service1,service2,service3...>
$srvctl remove database -d <dbname>

Execute netca and delete the corresponding listener

From the new home, set the environment and start the database in mount mode
SQL>startup mount
Remove the cluster_database, undo_tablespace for second instance, Instance_number, Thread, Remote_listener and
Local_listener from the spfile/pfile. Please note that some of these parameters may not be set in your environment.
The following command provides an example of removing the init.ora parameter. Please rerun as necessary until all
the Oracle RAC specific initialization parameters are removed from the spfile.
SQL>alter system set cluster_database=false scope=spfile;

Remove the second thread of redo

SQL>alter database disable thread 2;
Run the utlrp script after opening database
SQL>alter database open;
SQL>@?/rdbms/admin/utlrp

Finally ensure the database catalog represents the correct state

SQL>column comp_name format a25
SQL>column status name format a8
SQL>select comp_name,status,version from dba_components

**Confirm that the status is "OPTION OFF" for Oracle Real Application Cluster (Third Row in the sample below).

Upgrade the Oracle 18c Single Instance to Oracle 19c using the steps documented here
Once the database has been upgraded to 19c, Create a new listener using netca
Add the database and service to the Oracle Clusterware Registry using srvctl command
$srvctl add database -d <dbname> -oraclehome <ORACLE_HOME> -dbtype Single
$srvctl add service -s <service_name> -d <dbname>

Please test the steps on a test database prior to making changes on production.

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