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Final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge?

Uh … this was a long journey. In September 2022 Jannes Arends contacted me showing me his growing SYSTEM tablespace with every patch cycle. And not only for the CDB$ROOT only but in every PDB. Over time, I wrote some blog posts I link at the end of this blog post. But finally, we should have a working solution without any additional risk. So, I am hoping that this will be my final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge.

Final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge?

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What’s the point (summary)?

With every patch run, datapatch stores the entire collection …

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Cleaning up older patch artifacts – improving opatch performance

This blog post is about a feature not only I but you did ask for actually for a long time. Cleaning up older patch artifacts – improving opatch performance. Both in one opatch release. And opatch 12.2.0.1.37 from April 2023 has it.

A little bit of history

One of the longest journey I had ever done in my long time in Oracle was helping customers to find a voice for patch cleanup. Oracle 19c is a long term support release. Many customers upgraded to it already. And you apply patches on a regular …

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