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More about cleaning up datapatch patching files

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Patch Recommendation 10

One of the reasons why I love my job: We have the smartest customers out there. Incredible. When I blogged the other day (after a longer pause) about Cleanup datapatch patching files in your database some of you commented the other day with either success messages, or tried out to rollback – or simply missed steps in the README. And since we have also smart developers at Oracle, I received some additional facts from the datapatch architect which I let him explain below.

The README file

Well, Devin commented on the previous blog post…

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Upgrade fails with ORA-20001 during datapatch run

Posted on July 31, 2020 by AutoUpgrade Oracle Database 19c Patch Recommendation Upgrade / Migration 23

I encountered this issue now multiple times in my own environment. And I searched MOS and tried different things. But I couldn’t solve it yet. My Upgrade fails with ORA-20001 during datapatch run – and I’d like to show you how to bring the upgrade to an successful end.

Upgrade fails with ORA-20001 during datapatch run

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It all starts with an upgrade

In my lab environment I upgrade two databases often in parallel. An 11.2.0.4 database and a 12.2.0.1. The 11.2.0.4 upgrades always flawless. But the 12.2.0.1 occasionally fails. This is the screen AutoUpgrade is showing me – but this is not …

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Don’t get puzzled by “sqlpatch” messages during Upgrade

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Oracle Database 12c Patch Recommendation Upgrade / Migration 0

During my last Hands-On-Labs in Uruguay and Argentina I’ve had several people wondering about these messages below when running the command line upgrade with catctl.pl:

catctl.pl - sqlpatch

This (and another) message breaks the nicely structured format of the catctl.pl output. And as it ends with an “err” extension it looks to many people as if the upgrade had gotten an error,

But please don’t feel disturbed. It’s just messages from sqlpatch invocation – and the “err” extension is just pointing to an error file in case something has gone wrong.

In a future release such messages …

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

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