Viscosity has performed hundreds of databases upgrades in the past year alone for mission critical customers. Attendees will learn the “real-life” experience on how to successfully upgrade databases to Oracle Database 19c.   Customers typically ask the same set of questions: * • What do we need to do before running or performing the upgrade? * • What concerns and issues can potentially happen? * • What kind of downtime will it take for my large database? * • Is my application going to behave differently? Attendees will learn the best practices to perform database upgrades from Oracle versions 11.2.0.4 or 12.1.0.2 or 12.2/18c to Oracle Database 19c.  Learn the deep-dive into: * • Installing Oracle Database 19c Grid Infrastructure and Database software * • Patching the database software to the latest Release Update (RU) and one-offs * • Performing pre-upgrade tasks prior to the database upgrade * • Upgrading an Oracle 11.2.0.4 or 12.1.0.2 or 12.2/18c database to Oracle Database 19c with the latest RU * • Performing post-upgrade tasks after the database upgrade * • Learn how to perform AutoUpgrades to Oracle Database 19c * • Learn how to upgrade Apex * • Learn how to manually upgrade timezones * • Learn the difference between how to upgrade leveraging: * o DBUA in silent mode method * o DBUpgrade method * o AutoUpgrade method