You may have read my previous blog post about patching all my environments to the January 2022 patch bundles. But since I do this in a very simple non-RAC, non-GI environment, I may not see issues you may have encountered. Some people commented – and I would like to share Some additional information regarding the Oracle 19.14.0 RUs . Still, please, this is NOT a collection of all open issues. I just see this blog post as a summary of the issues I have seen and/or heard about so far.
Out Of Place
DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE and Out-Of-Place Patching
Well, you see, this is most likely my special DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE week. And since I receive quite a number of questions, it may be good to discuss here about DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE and Out-Of-Place Patching?
Out-of-place Patching
When you patch out-of-place with a new home – which is clearly our recommendation – you may see another tiny pitfall with DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE.
When you check DBA_DIRECTORIES, you will find two directories being related to DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE.
SQL> select directory_name, directory_path from dba_directories where directory_name like '%OPTIM%' DIRECTORY_NAME DIRECTORY_PATH -------------------- -------------------------------------------------- DBMS_OPTIM_LOGDIR /u01/app/oracle/product/19/cfgtoollogs DBMS_OPTIM_ADMINDIR /u01/app/oracle/product/19/rdbms/admin
You see the “19” in the …
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