Re: Datapatch while users/applications are connected?

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On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, 17:46 Chris Taylor, <christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got a guy telling me its perfectly fine to run datapatch on a
> database while users & applications have reconnected. (In this example,
> patching from 19.14 to 19.17)
>
> How many of you guys do that?
>
> I understand from reading about it that you _can_ do that. I don't
> understand _why_ you would do that?
>
> What if datapatch runs into an exception?
>
> Is it not risky to allow users and applications into the database before
> the all the steps are finished?
>
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something here I guess?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>

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