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===Patching ODA & Exadata===
 
* [[Patching Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)]]
 
* [[Patching Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)]]
 
* [[Patching Exadata]]
 
* [[Patching Exadata]]

Revision as of 10:13, 15 May 2017

On bog standard iron, this was a fairly simple procedure. Download the patch, stop the databases and listeners and opatch the ORACLE_HOME.
a word about the different patching terminology;overlay, merge, bundle etc..

What patches are installed?

From command line

$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lspatches

From SQL*Plus in version 11

select action, namespace, version, id, comments from dba_registry_history;

From SQL*Plus in version 12

select extract(sys.dbms_qpatch.get_opatch_list,'//patchDescription|//appliedDate|//patchID') from dual;

Now things are getting more interesting...

Patching ODA & Exadata