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Final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge?

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 30

Uh … this was a long journey. In September 2022 Jannes Arends contacted me showing me his growing SYSTEM tablespace with every patch cycle. And not only for the CDB$ROOT only but in every PDB. Over time, I wrote some blog posts I link at the end of this blog post. But finally, we should have a working solution without any additional risk. So, I am hoping that this will be my final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge.

Final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge?

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What’s the point (summary)?

With every patch run, datapatch stores the entire collection …

Patching most of my environments with the July 2022 Bundle Patches

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 42

It’s brutally hot out there. It must be July. And I sit in my cool basement office and start my quarterly patching journey hoping that you can enjoy the sun and the sea somewhere. It is time to do my usual exercise, this time Patching most of my environments with the July 2022 Patch Bundles.

Patching most of my environments with the July 2022 Bundle Patches

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As usual, an important annotation upfront: I patch in-place due to space issues. But in reality, you please patch always out-of-place with a separate home. Please see this blog post about how to apply the RU directly …

Oracle Database BP April16 applied successfully

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Patch Recommendation 13

Usually I don’t post twice a day but as my post scriptum for the previous blog post got longer and longer I decided to write an entry about it – maybe simply because I feel soooo happy that my patch application succeeded flawless.

For many of you the following steps may look very boring as you have done this many times. But I use the blog also to brain-dump information for myself 😉 And for those who’d like to play with it, I summarized the steps fitting exactly into our Hands-On-Lab environment.

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I downloaded the following patches:

Database Proactive

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Final blog post about datapatch cleanup and purge?

What’s the point (summary)?

Patching most of my environments with the July 2022 Bundle Patches

Oracle Database BP April16 applied successfully

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