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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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