RE: October CPU

From: Luca Canali <Luca.Canali_at_cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:57:17 +0200
Message-ID: <F9411E3A291FB5449991ED7E624D27F4017E4775@cernxchg20.cern.ch>

..The new twist here is that, if you wait long enough, your non-rolling patch may become rolling :) (that's what happened to Jul 06 that was non rolling but now, when included in CPU October 06, is rolling).

OCT 06 CPU RAC post install: "Users can continue to access the database during the post-installation steps."

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:36 PM To: oracle-l
Subject: RE: October CPU

>>>

>>>I wonder if anybody can explain this sudden change in the CPU patch
>>>instructions for RAC (which actually has a big impact in production
>>>operations):
>>>
>>>- JUL 06 CPU RAC post install stated than when running
>>>post-install: "No user should be accessing the selected instance and
>>>all other instances must be shutdown."

...Luca, great thread. We've covered the controversial topic of "rolling patchs" and "rolling upgrades" here several times each time the topic of shared Oracle Home comes up. The topic never dies, but the marketing hype rolls on...

I'll be blogging about this sometime I suppose...

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