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In my blog about the new automatic schema evolution feature in GoldenGate 26ai, I was replicating the following table from Oracle to PostgreSQL: The replicat created a PostgreSQL table from an…

In a previous blog, I noted that there might be a bug with the Maximum Input Characters setting in GoldenGate 26ai AI Service. The bug was confirmed by Oracle, so let's see what it is exactly.

For as long as I have used GoldenGate, an initial load had one prerequisite: the target tables must already exist. Data Pump takes care of it between two Oracle databases.

I sometimes get asked how the new AI Service of GoldenGate 26ai works, and the best way to show it is to see it in action.

When migrating a Coordinated Replicat for a client, I faced a very specific OGG-02454 error that I wanted to share.

In a previous post, I shared the OGGRestAPI Python client I built for the GoldenGate REST API. Since then, I kept using it on production deployments, fixing it and adding new features along the way.

Configuring an NGINX reverse proxy for GoldenGate is well documented by Oracle, but what is not is the implication of adding or removing deployments.

Setting up a distribution path is an important step when connecting two GoldenGate deployments. However, there are so many connection options that it's hard to know how to proceed.

When running the GoldenGate migration utility, which I presented in a previous blog post, you might encounter the following warning on USERID syntax: This is not really a surprise, since USERID…

Depending on the location of your GoldenGate trail files, you might have to use the convchk utility to relocate them before migrating to the Microservices Architecture.

*Updated in June 2026, based on the latest version of the client.

Oracle GoldenGate REST API has been around for quite some time now, but I've yet to see it used in practice at customers. Every time I tried to introduce it, it was some sort of novelty.

With GoldenGate 19c and 21c Premier Support coming to an end in April 2026, time is ticking for many clients with old installations of GoldenGate.

At the moment, three versions of GoldenGate are still under Premier Support, but this will very soon change, with GoldenGate 19c and 21c coming out of Premier Support in April this year !

*26ai update: This article was originally written for 23ai. But not much changes when setting up GoldenGate 26ai.