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Best practice for backing out of Application Patches

From: Scott Stefick <sstefick_at_harper.cc.il.us>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:24:50 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00511288.20021203112450@fatcity.com>

>Sorry, I forgot a Subject title!
>
>Gurus,
>
>I was just given a project to maintain a Computerized Maintenance
>Management System. When I asked the companies support staff how to roll
>back patches in the backend Oracle Database (Ver. 8174), they said that
>there was no way to do this. I'm guessing I could use logminer just
>incase a patch doesn't work. Would this be a good solution, or are there
>other (better) ways of safeguarding myself when it comes to
>patching? Obviously, I will be applying the patches to a test instance
>first, but I don't want to have to go back to restore from a backup if the
>patch causes unexpected issues.
>
>TIA!
-Scott Stefick



Scott Stefick
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Oracle Certified Professional DBA
Wm. Rainey Harper College
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