Tag: patching

Unfortunately is it not all that unusual for a patch or upgrade to Oracle Grid or RAC to fail, requiring a rollback. Frequently when that is necessary, the rollback actions then also fail. The reason for the rollback failure is…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    6: Timing Now that we know how to patch every component and the different options available to do so…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    5: Troubleshooting In this post I’ll be sharing a few issues that we faced and sorted out. From a…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    4: The Rollback Procedure You will most likely never need to rollback any patch on an Exadata but it…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6    3.4/ Patching the Grid Infrastructure 3.4.0 – Information Patching a node takes around 30 – 45 minutes You have…

Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 3: The patching procedure 3.1 Patching the Cells (aka Storage Servers)   3.1.0 – Information All actions must be done…

Once you have installed your new Exadata machine will come a time where you’ll be asked : “shouldn’t we patch the Exadata” ? And the answer is “yes, definitely“. Indeed, Oracle releases huges (~ 10 GB) “Quarterly Full Stack” patches (aka Bundles)…

Chris Presley, Solutions Architect at Pythian, discusses the pros and cons of applying Cumulative Updates on SQL Server.

So, it has been some time since I have patched a database. Patching seemed necessary in a 12c database used for testing, as it was having some crashing issues. As the database and GI home were both un-patched, it seemed worthwhile to…

When you try to rollback a weblogic patch in Oracle EBS R12.2, you might run into issues similar to below: $ ./bsu.sh -remove -patchlist=YIJF -prod_dir=/u01/install/VISION/fs2/FMW_Home/wlserver_10.3 -verbose Checking for conflicts.. No conflict(s) detected Starting removal of Patch ID: YIJF Restoring /d1/V1223B5B/fs1/FMW_Home/modules/com.bea.core.datasource6.binding_1.10.0.0.jar…