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Cleaning up older patch artifacts – improving opatch performance

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Patch Recommendation 51

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.

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 …

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Can I cleanup the previous Patch Bundles with opatch?

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Best Practice Patch Recommendation 36

Addition May 16, 2023:

Before you read on, better jump to this blog post. With opatch 37, released in April 2023, a cleanup option is available – and this significantly improves performance:

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.…

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Mike Dietrich
Oracle Vice President of Product Management and Development for Database Upgrade, Cloud Migrations and Patching writing just another blog.

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