Re: Updating Oracle with latest patches

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:25:55 -0000
Message-ID: <420f6366$0$16585$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>

"barry" <bbulsara23_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:747f1dec.0502130547.ca9f478_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi, I administer SuSE linux 9, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2K, Microsoft
> Office, Sophos anti-virus, and Adobe Acrobat reader on a number of
> networked machines. All of these have a facility to "Download/update
> any outstanding updates or patches" automatically or on-demand. Is
> there something similar out there for Oracle databases, even a 3rd
> party product. I can't find anything. Rather than installing the
> patches, I just want to a) backup the company database prior to b)
> running a program to detect and update the database with all the
> latest patches.

Oracle 10g allows you to do this at extra cost - prior to that it is up to you.

Incidentally I'm not aware of any such facility for sqlserver, where can it be found?

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

Received on Sun Feb 13 2005 - 08:25:55 CST