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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, …

Virtual Classroom Seminars 10-12: Videos and Slides are available

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Thanks to all of you for participating in our last 3 web seminar session. And since some of you had to leave earlier in one of the Virtual Classroom Seminars 10-12: Videos and Slides are available for download and on-demand viewing.

Virtual Classrom Seminar - Migrating Large Databases

No registration is required – you can watch all of our seminars anytime.

And as usual, our workshops are free of buzz words and explain only technical topics. The presenters Roy Swonger, Daniel Overby Hansen, Rodrigo Jorge, Bill Beauregard and myself, we all love to talk about technical topics, show and share demos and put …

Virtual Classroom Seminar: Fallback Is Your Insurance – on Nov 11, 2021

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 4

No worries, I haven’t become lazy recently. But the past weeks were more busy than anything I have experienced so far. And I had a full week off and enjoyed the silence and absence from blogs and cell phones and email in the mountains. But now I’m back – and surprise, surprise – this week on Thursday we’ll have our 11th Virtual Classroom Seminar: Fallback Is Your Insurance – on Nov 11, 2021.

Fallback Seminar

When will it happen?

Thursday, Nov 11, 2021 – 10:00h CET

What are we going to talk about?

Fallback and Rollback. How to secure your job. …

The newest patching surprises – and how to fix some of them

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 19

Well, there is no Product Manager for patching. And I’m glad that I’m not in this position. But thanks to all of you, internally and externally, who share your findings with me. In this blog post I’d like to inform you about the newest patching surprises – and how to fix some of them.

The newest patching surprises - and how to fix some of them

Patch apply without confirmation?

Peter Lehmann informed me about this a few weeks ago. Peter told me that he patched systems with the July 2019 RU for Oracle 12.2.0.1 and recognized that the patch installed with opatch without waiting for confirmation. It looked as somebody has …

Can I apply a BP on top of a PSU? Or vice versa? PART 2

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 4

I thought I won’t blog about this again:

Can I apply a BP on top of a PSU? Or vice versa?

But then a colleague of mine raised this simple question:

“I have a customer that would like to change from patching using PSU to patching using Bundle Patch. I am
wondering what happens if my home has had several PSUs installed. Before applying a BP, would I need to rollback one by one all the PSUs that have been installed in reverse order (tedious) OR only the latest PSU (good)?”

Unfortunately the “simple” solution is hidden deep down in …

rollback

Can I cleanup the previous Patch Bundles with opatch?

The secret directories

Virtual Classroom Seminars 10-12: Videos and Slides are available

Virtual Classroom Seminar: Fallback Is Your Insurance – on Nov 11, 2021

When will it happen?

What are we going to talk about?

The newest patching surprises – and how to fix some of them

Patch apply without confirmation?

Can I apply a BP on top of a PSU? Or vice versa? PART 2

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