patches

From: Boivin, Patrice J <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:05:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0050DFAD.20021127110530@fatcity.com>

I am wondering how your sites handle patching production servers.  

I just did a search in MetaLink, since 8174 was released there have been 48 patches (if I just select RDBMS).  

If I select other items in my search, I get upwards of 70 additional bug fixes.  

How do high reliability sites handle patching? I assume they would rather fix potential problems (testing the patches on a testbed of course) rather than just apply bug fixes as problems are encountered on production servers.  

regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)  

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Author: Boivin, Patrice J
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