Mitigation Patch

Do you need the Mitigation Patch in CDB$ROOT and all PDBS?

Thanks to Axel Delin for asking this very reasonable question on the blog. Do you need the Mitigation Patch in CDB$ROOT and all PDBS? Background for this question is that Axel can’t remove JVM but doesn’t use it. A typical case we cover in our slides and presentations as well. And in this case, the Mitigation Patch will become your friend. Please note: If you DON’T have JAVAVM in your database, you won’t need to pay attention and instead could stop reading now.

Do you need the Mitigation Patch in CDB$ROOT and all PDBS?

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Mitigation Patch

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Patching all my environments with the January 2021 OJVM Bundles

You may have read my blog post from the other day about patching my environments with the January 2021 Release Updates. But as I installed now Java in all my databases for testing purposes, I will quickly demonstrate how Patching all my environments with the January 2021 OJVM Bundles works.

Security Alert January 2021

Let me start with the Security Alert for January 2021. And don’t forget to take a look at the Oracle Database Server Risk Matrix for January 2021. This time, the is a 4.8 risk score issue with …

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OJVM and the Mitigation Patch – Things to know in 2020

Today my headline sounds a bit like “Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf” – but there is a reason why I’d like to write about about OJVM and the Mitigation Patch – Things to know in 2020. We are working with a customer right now where preupgrade.jar gave a warning about the existence of the Mitigation patch in an 11.2.0.4 home – despite the fact that JAVAVM is not configured in this database. And this looked strange to us.

OJVM and the Mitigation Patch - Things to know

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Mitigation Patch?

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part V

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MOS Note released explaining patching without STARTUP UPGRADE mode

An important note regarding OJVM rolling patching has been published on MyOracle Support:

MOS Note: 2217053.1
RAC Rolling Install Process for the “Oracle JavaVM Component Database PSU” (OJVM PSU) Patches

“Beginning with the Jan2017 OJVM PSU patchset for 11.2.0.4 and

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part IV

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What is missing with the “Mitigation Patch?

Michael, the team lead from a large Oracle customer mailed me the other day. He wanted to disable Java on all their +600 databases by using the Mitigation Patch for OJVM. But he received a strange error when trying to enable the …

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part III

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What is the “Mitigation Patch?

In MOS Note:1929745.1 – Oracle JavaVM Component Database Patches there’s a section called What is the Mitigation Patch. It says:
For situations where the latest OJVM PSU cannot be installed immediately there is a “Mitigation Patch” that can be used. The “Mitigation

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part II

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Important Notes

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The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it – Part I

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Who’s the Product Manager for Patching?

First of all, I’m neither a patching expert nor am I the Product Manager for Patching. There’s no such role as far as I know but there are people inside Oracle who have way more clue about this topic. There’s a group …

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OJVM patch: Standby-First patching, yes or no?

I have blogged in the past more than once about the “wonderful” topic of OJVM patching.

Anyhow,  I’d like to summarize a few typical questions sent to me in the past months regarding OJVM patching.

Do I need to apply the OJVM patch every time I apply a PSU or BP?

Unfortunately this is not a one-time-and-then-you-are-set operation. You’ll have to do it every time.

How do I find out if OJVM is used in my database?

I tried to nail this down in this blog post here:

But …

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