RE: Oracle Home naming (and out-of-place patching)

From: Michael Dinh <mdinh_at_XIFIN.Com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:46:32 -0700
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Comments welcome.

Michael Dinh

Disparity Breaks Automation (DBA)

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 7:30 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Oracle Home naming (and out-of-place patching)

Metalink Note: 1189783.1 speaks of out-of-place upgrading and patching.

I'm wonder if it might be a good idea to change the oracle home naming conventions to use four or five digits under product directory, out-of-place patching being a driving factor.

Examples:
/orasoft/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
/orasoft/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.2/dbhome_1
/orasoft/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.2.1/dbhome_1

I was wondering what a sampling of opinions would produce from this list.

Five digits would represent PSU patching. In my case, once the oratab file is updated, everything else (scripts, etc), will set environment correctly, so no issues there.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
904 727-2546

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