Re: Bundled Patches vs one-off patches

>> I've always heard that once you started patching with bundled patches
you needed to stay that way.

Not exactly. If the one-off patch conflicts with the bundle patch or patch set update, you will need to request a merge patch (I don't think they actually call it this anymore). 95% of the requests I've put in have come back within a day or two. It's usually the exact same patch but the metadata is modified so it doesn't conflict.

If you're lucky and the fix is rolled into the PSU or bundle patch, it will simply roll back the one-off and you won't have to worry about it anymore.

The conflict checker tool on MOS (1091294.1) will allow you to check if the one-off conflicts with the bundle or PSU without having to run anything on the server except to gather the patch inventory.

Seth Miller

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Woody McKay <woody.mckay_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have several thousand customers with Oracle 12.1.0.2.7 DB on Win 2012
> R2 64bit.
>
> We patch the DB's using bundled patches from Oracle. We've hit a bug
> where certain queries give wrong data results. Oracle is working on a
> one-off patch for this.
>
> I don't think we will be able to wait for this one-off to be rolled into a
> bundled patch.
>
> I've always heard that once you started patching with bundled patches you
> needed to stay that way.
>
> Is there a process for switching from bundled patches to one-offs and then
> back to bundled patching? We create automated installers for customers to
> use for applying patches.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts you can share.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Woody
>

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