Tag: patching

I recently applied the January 2023 released E-Business Suite Release 12.2 CPU patches following the release document 2916871.1. Below are a few high-level notes that might be helpful for a quick reference for anyone taking up these patches. E-Business Suite…

I was conducting regular OS patching of all the Exadata components when one of compute nodes caused imageinfo status to report a failure. Here are the steps I took to resolve the issue.   Initially, I thought the problem was…

Oracle Patching of Databases (DB) and Grid Infrastructure (GI) is a routine and recommended process for any Oracle database. It’s no different in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In fact, OCI makes it even easier for DBAs to patch the required…

Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we bring forward a popular post from the past. We originally published today’s post on February 13, 2019. This blog post has been on my To…

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This will be a short entry, but hopefully, it will help if you face the error “ORA-01722: invalid number” while doing an upgrade. Today I was doing an Oracle RDBMS upgrade from 12.2 with DST 34, to 19.7 with DST…

Overview This post describes a recent outage during a routine Exadata (X7-2) patching to the 19.2.12.0.0.200317 release using “patchmgr.” An incorrect configuration of NTP (Network Time Protocol) on the InfiniBand (IB) switches placed all switches in the “discover” state after…