Opatch. A tool nobody really loves but everybody has to use (at least those of you who patch or aren’t in our cloud deployment). Opatch gets distributed via MOS. And you often can apply patches with an older version of OPatch. So why should you use the most recent version of OPatch? Why should you use the most recent version of OPatch? First of all, you have a base installation of Opatch in your $ORACLE_HOMEs: [CDB2] oracle@localhost:/u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1 $ ls OPatch auto jlib opatchauto.cmd operr.bat scripts config jre opatch.bat operr_readme.txt version.txt datapatch modules opatch_env.sh oplan datapatch.bat ocm opatch.pl oracle_common docs opatch … Continue reading Why should you use the most recent version of OPatch?