patch_storage

Cleaning up older patch artifacts – improving opatch performance

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 18

This blog post is about a feature not only I but you did ask for actually for a long time. Cleaning up older patch artifacts – improving opatch performance. Both in one opatch release. And opatch 12.2.0.1.37 from April 2023 has it.

Cleaning up older patch artifacts - improving opatch performance

Photo by Toon Lambrechts on Unsplash

A little bit of history

One of the longest journey I had ever done in my long time in Oracle was helping customers to find a voice for patch cleanup. Oracle 19c is a long term support release. Many customers upgraded to it already. And you apply patches on a regular …

Can I cleanup the previous Patch Bundles with opatch?

Today I will step on mined territory. Can I cleanup the previous Patch Bundles with opatch? Or can I just wipe out the old ones? That is a question which will bring people with temper quickly close to explosion. But let me start step by step, especially for those of you who aren’t familiar with this topic.

The secret directories

You L O V E secrets, don’t you? No? Well … then let me start with a secret which isn’t a secret to most people making it even more obscure.

When you install a patch with opatch or opatchauto, …

patch_storage

Cleaning up older patch artifacts – improving opatch performance

A little bit of history

Can I cleanup the previous Patch Bundles with opatch?

The secret directories

Archives

Categories

Upgrade @YouTube

RSS Feed for Upgrade your Database – NOW!

Subscribe via Email

Follow me on Twitter

Recent Posts