From all my quarterly blog posts you know that I patch usually in-place for space and other reasons. And you may have similar reasons when you patch. But it is not ideal – and just speaking about risk and downtime, you should always patch out-of-place. So let me show you how Patching to Oracle 19.19.0 out-of-place with additional patches works.

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What do I need?
Actually, this is not complicated at all. And if you never done it this way, give it a try now please.
- Base release Oracle Database 19.3.0 image
- opatch 37 from