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News and updates in opatch 12.2.0.1.45 (Jan 2025)

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Patch Recommendation 10

Are you interested in the news and updates in opatch 12.2.0.1.45 (Jan 2025)? This is the opatch version being released on January 21, 2025 together with the January Release Updates (RUs) and other patch bundles.

News and updates in opatch 12.2.0.1.45 (Jan 2025)

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What’s new in opatch 12.2.0.1.45 (Jan 2025)?

When I refer to opatch, I mean the opatch tool for the Oracle Database installations. You can always download it via OPatch Download: Patch 6880880. You will use this opatch for Oracle Database 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1, 18c, 19c and 21c. In addition, the same changes and updates are present in opatch 11.2.0.3.49 …

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Patching most of my environments with the July 2022 Bundle Patches

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Patch Recommendation 42

It’s brutally hot out there. It must be July. And I sit in my cool basement office and start my quarterly patching journey hoping that you can enjoy the sun and the sea somewhere. It is time to do my usual exercise, this time Patching most of my environments with the July 2022 Patch Bundles.

As usual, an important annotation upfront: I patch in-place due to space issues. But in reality, you please patch always out-of-place with a separate home. Please see this blog post about how to apply the RU directly …

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Patching all my environments with the July 2020 Patch Bundles

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Patch Recommendation 26

Quarterly routine: When the new security alert get published, then it is patching time again. I’ll show you as usual how Patching all my environments with the July 2020 Patch Bundles works. And I heard your comments – in the next round in October, I will do this for GI and OJVM most likely, too. If not earlier …

And just an important annotation upfront: I patch in-place due to space issues. But in reality, you please patch always out-of-place with a separate home.

Security Alert July 2020

This is the Security Alert for …

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Patching all my environments with the Oct 2019 Patch Bundles

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Patch Recommendation 20

Yesterday I blogged about the Oct 2019 Patch Bundles being available for download. And while I wrote this blog post, I downloaded all of them for my environments. Here I’d like to share with you the most simple path to apply them. As I have no cluster or ASM, I don’t have to patch Grid Infrastructure. And I don’t even have OJVM in any of my databases right now. Due to space constraints in my lab environment I will apply the patches in-place. You shouldn’t do this but instead use always a new home you patch. This allows you …

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