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OUI Updates Update

Submitted by Niall Litchfield on Mon, 2011-12-19 07:37

We’ve now received a response to the issue described in the previous entry. In short oui updates at install time are broken (apparently fixed in 11.2.0.3, but no updates are available for that release yet to check. Hi , The OUI looks for the metadata for the patches. There is an unpublished bug 11709996 on [...]

OUI Updates feature

Submitted by Niall Litchfield on Thu, 2011-12-15 10:35

One of the nice new features of the 11.2 installer for the Database (and indeed the installer for Enterprise Manager 12c) is the ability to tell the setup software to download any post release recommended updates for the product and to apply them at install time. The installer first of all prompts you for your [...]

Oracle.com passwords

Submitted by Niall Litchfield on Wed, 2011-01-05 11:46

Just a quick note for anyone who has missed the Oracle Security alerts email. If you downloaded either Enterprise Manager 11g or Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 before November 17th last year then you downloaded a version of OUI that sent unencrypted passwords for your oracle.com SSO account to Oracle over the intertubes. Not Good. Oracle have [...]

Applying Exadata Bundle Patch 6 (BP6)

Well November came around quickly - when I started blogging I promised myself that I would at least try to share my Exadata findings once a month.  So it is time to share my experience and findings from applying the bundle patch 6. If you are new to Exadata patching you should hopefully find some important points below. The patching took place on a ¼ Rack (2 compute nodes). The high level approach for applying BP6 is
1.       Apply patch 10114705 - Database Bundle Patch 6 for Exadata first
Submitted by Pbach on Fri, 2010-11-05 04:37

The patching nightmares are over (11.2.0.2.0)…

Submitted by oraclebase on Fri, 2010-09-10 16:27

One of the things that continually annoys me is that to get the latest version of the database you have to install the base release and then instantly patch it to the latest patch set. Not any more.

“Starting with the 11.2.0.2 patch set, Oracle Database patch sets are full installations of the Oracle Database software. This means that you do not need to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1) before installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2).”

You don’t understand how happy this makes me. In addition, the installer also downloads and applies madatory patches, so even when you’re mid-way through the lifecycle of a patchset, your new installations are still up to date. :)

There is a bunch of new functionality already listed in the new features manual:

Happy downloading and upgrading.

Notes.

  • Read the patch notes before you start downloading. You probably don’t need all the zip files (4.8G). :)
  • Out-of-place patching (new ORACLE_HOME) is the recommended method now, so there is no real difference between patch sets and upgrades. Grid infrastructure *must* be patches out-of-place.
  • I guess OFA directories should now include the first 4 digits of the version (11.2.0 -> 11.2.0.2) as those directories will only ever contain that patch set.

Cheers

Tim…