Re: Patching Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit

From: Maaz Anjum <maazanjum_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:31:29 -0400
Message-ID: <CA+zcOQ-MqP0-Qcf9Yx0UMV21oqZx_oDA35pVKRa765fAkBO81w_at_mail.gmail.com>



I would open up an SR with Oracle in parallel to ask which patch is actually applicable.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Day <tomdaytwo_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the Patch Set Update and Critical Patch Update January 2014
> Availability Document (Doc ID 1594621.1) document says that for 11.2.0.3.0
> the latest patch for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit) BP 28 is Patch
> 17906982<https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/patch/PatchDetail.jspx?patchId=17906982>,
> or later<https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=161549.1>.
> Patch 17906982 is not available. The later link leads to Oracle Database,
> Networking and Grid Agent Patches for Microsoft Platforms (Doc ID 161549.1)
> which has Patch 18075406: ORACLE 11G 11.2.0.3 PATCH 29 BUG FOR WINDOWS
> (64-BIT AMD64 AND INTEL EM64) for 10.2.0.3.0 Patch 29. 10.2.0.3.0 Patch 30
> is not available yet.
>
> So now I can't figure out how I got to patch 18223971. I'm am not so
> smart that a poorly engineered bit of technology can't flummox me.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:13 AM, John Hurley <hurleyjohnb_at_yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> First question is do you want to go to latest 11.2.0.3.x or to 11.2.0.4.x
>> but question zero is do you have good closely matching test system to
>> practice and test against? Big diff between going up to 11.2.0.4 plus (
>> rumors ) of issues with 11.2.0.4 on various platforms
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Mar 19, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Thomas Day <tomdaytwo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > We want to patch Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release
>> 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
>> >
>> > I've searched My Oracle and here's the best that I can come up with:
>> >
>> >
>> > You must use the OPatch utility version 11.2.0.3.5 or later to apply
>> this patch.
>> >
>> > Pre-requisit for patch 18223971 is OracleŽ Database Patch (18069285) -
>> version 11.2.0.4.2.
>> >
>> > Oracle recomments Patch 18180390: AFTER APPLYING DBPSU 11.2.0.4.1 Patch
>> (18069285)
>> >
>> > Known issues for
>> > OracleŽ Database Patch (18223971) - version 11.2.0.4.3
>> >
>> > Bug 18180390 -- This can be safely ignored. Should be fixed by Patch
>> 18180390 above.
>> >
>> > Now this looks like more than a patch. It's an upgrade to 11.2.0.4.3.
>> But it can be done via the OPatch utility. I just thought that I'd check
>> and see if I missed something obvious. Has anyone had any experience (good
>> or bad) patching 11.2.0.3.0?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>
>

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