Autonomous Database Upgrade Overview
Learn about Fusion Applications' upgrade to Oracle Autonomous Database infrastructure.
What's new?
As part of Oracle's efforts to modernize the technology stack for Fusion Applications, the Oracle Database for your Fusion environments will be upgraded to Oracle Autonomous Database (ADBS).
If you received an email with the subject line: Scheduled Maintenance: Upcoming Exception Maintenance - Upgrade Fusion Apps Environment to Autonomous Database, your account has been selected for the upgrade to Oracle Autonomous Database.
Why is this change happening?
Oracle Autonomous Database is a cloud database that uses machine learning to automate database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks traditionally performed by database administrators (DBAs). Unlike a conventional database, Autonomous Database performs these tasks and more without human intervention.
This upgrade lets your Fusion environments take advantage of Oracle Autonomous Database technology for better performance and availability. To learn more, see What Is an Autonomous Database.
Will there be downtime?
Yes, there is downtime associated with this upgrade, and customers should plan for an outage. We estimate the downtime will be 8 to 10 hours, depending on the size of your Fusion Applications environments. Very large environments might take longer.
What are my required actions?
We recommend customers to verify customization and integrations after non-production environments have completed the upgrade.
Are there other environment administration restrictions?
You will not be able to perform self-service lifecycle activities such as installing languages or setting up customer-managed keys on the environments being upgraded during the upgrade. You can perform these activities after the upgrade is complete.
Some activities will require planning and consideration before the upgrade. For example, you can't perform a refresh between two of your environments until both have been upgraded to the Oracle Autonomous Database.
If you have any concerns, open a Support Request (SR) with Oracle Support using the following information:
- Severity: Technical Issues
- Service Group: Oracle Cloud Applications
- Service: Any Fusion product (provide the name of the product that you use)
- Service Category: SaaS Console Services (Outage, Provision, P2T/T2T, Resize, Environment and User Management)
- Sub–Category: Fusion Autonomous Database Upgrade
The first time you open a support request, you're automatically taken through a series of steps to provision your support account. If you want to make changes or if you run into problems, see Configuring Your Oracle Support Account.
Autonomous Database Upgrade Cadence
The Autonomous Database upgrade is scheduled in the months between Fusion Application quarterly update months for your environment family.
Non-production cadence: The Autonomous Database upgrade for environments on the non-production cadence will be performed in the second week of the scheduled month at around the same time as the environment's maintenance slot.
Production cadence: The Autonomous Database upgrade for environments on the production cadence will be performed in the fourth week of the scheduled month at around the same time as the environment's maintenance slot.
Note that the "first week of the month" is the week with the first Friday of a month where the week starts from the prior Sunday. For example, the first week of March, 2025 is the week from Sunday, March 2, 2025 to March 8, 2025.
The Autonomous Database upgrade is scheduled to match as closely as possible to the same maintenance slot for the Fusion Applications quarterly update. However, your environments may be scheduled a few hours earlier or later.
Required Actions
- After non-production environments are successfully upgraded to Autonomous Database, we recommend that you verify that your customization and integrations are working as expected for those environments.
- Prepare as needed for the upgrade of production environments, which involves downtime as discussed in the Overview section of this topic.
Email Notifications Before and During the Upgrade
You will receive email notifications about the scheduling and progress of the upgrade, as follows:
- 60 day: Initial email notification with scheduling details, about 60 days before the scheduled environment family upgrade.
- 30 day: Reminder email, about 30 days before the upgrade.
- 7 day: Reminder email, 7 days before the upgrade.
- Upgrade started: Email sent when the upgrade begins on the scheduled date.
- Upgrade complete: Email sent when the upgrade is complete.
View the Autonomous Database Upgrade Schedule and Status
Once your environments have been scheduled for upgrade, you can go to the Oracle Cloud Console to view the schedule for your Fusion environments. To view the identity upgrade schedule, sign in to the Oracle Cloud Console and navigate to your environment family as follows:
- On the Applications Home page in the Console, under Subscriptions, select Go to service on the Fusion Applications tile.
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On the Fusion Applications Overview page, select Environment families, and then select the name of your environment family.
Tip
If you don't see your resources, ensure that you're in the correct compartment. - On the environment family details page, under Fusion Applications, select Maintenance, and then select the Autonomous Database upgrade tab to view your schedule.
In the following example image, you can see the Autonomous Database upgrade tab of the Environment family details page:
The Upgrade status field and Scheduled start time fields are updated by Oracle after the upgrade is scheduled, and the status field is updated after the upgrade is complete to show the upgrade history for the environment family.
Rescheduling
To reschedule the ADBS upgrade, open a Support Request (SR) to schedule a downtime. Select the following ticket values to reschedule the upgrade:
- Severity: Technical Issues
- Service Group: Oracle Cloud Applications
- Service: Any Fusion product (provide the name of the product that you use)
- Service Category: SaaS Console Services (Outage, Provision, P2T/T2T, Resize, Environment and User Management)
- Sub–Category: Fusion Autonomous Database Upgrade
Note the following:
- You will be offered a selection of downtime windows because update is a scheduled maintenance event.
- After the rescheduled upgrade is processed by Oracle, it's shown in the Oracle Cloud Console as described in this topic.
- You will be notified by email as described in Email Notifications Before and During the Upgrade.