Re: Patching Oracle

Hi!

Perhaps it will be usefull to use the very latest Opatch also...

Note:268895.1
Note:224346.1 Last Revision Date: 16-JUL-2008 The current OPatch version for this RDBMS release is 10.2.0.4.3

"Mtek" <mtek_at_mtekusa.com> wrote in message news:013c0b84-b445-433f-9a9f-17155109e08e_at_d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... On Jul 18, 11:11 am, kyb..._at_mail.med.upenn.edu wrote:
> On Jul 18, 10:44 am, Mtek <m..._at_mtekusa.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Our company is running Oracle 10g 10.2.0.1.0. We want to and need to
> > upgrade to the latest patch. We logged onto Metalink and in the
> > Simple search used these parameters:
>
> > - Oracle Database Family
> > - 10.1.0.2
> > - Any
> > - Any
> > - Red Hat Enterprice Linux Server x86-64
>
> > It gave us 26 patches to install. We're not sure how to find the
> > latest patch for our version of Oracle. Do we need to install those
> > 26 patches, or is there 1 patch that will upgrade us to the latest
> > patch?
>
> > How can we find it? Where on Metalink can we find it?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > John
>
> John, click on the "Patches & Updates" tab, click on "Quick Links to
> the latest Patchsets...",
> click on "Oracle Databases", scan the display of OS platforms for
> "Linux x86-64" and
> click on "10.2.0.4". Or you can go directly to the upgrade patch by
> clicking on "Simple search"
> and specifying patch # 6810189 for 10.2.0.4 which is the latest for
> oracle10g.
>
> Be aware that there are major changes with this upgrade so you should
> look
> at new feature docs before you do your upgrade.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thank you. We've always find it a bit hard to navigate through Metalink......

John. Received on Tue Jul 22 2008 - 02:46:25 CDT