Tag: patching

Most often companies scheduling downtime for patching of the Linux kernel in a production environment follow strict ITIL processes and make arrangements to be fail-safe in order to keep the production environment up and running. Patching is an important part…

Exadata 19c comes with Linux 7 and Exadata 12c and 18c come with Linux 6. There will then be an upgrade to Linux 7 when upgrading from 12c or 18c to Exadata 19c or above. In this specific case, you…

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.