RE: Oracle and DST changes

  • From: "Mercadante, Thomas F \(LABOR\)" <Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gkatteri@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mark Strickland" <strickland.mark@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:06:10 -0500

The Oracle notes also suggests that if you have JVM installed that you
upgrade it.  I have JVM installed in the database but only because our
Curam applications calls it for transaction processing.  My gut feeling
is that I don't need to upgrade.

 

Any thoughts?

 

I also agree about not patching anything if I'm not using Time Zone data
types.  We only have one 10.2.0.2 database and I'm not too worried about
it.

 

The big pain in the arse is upgrading all of the Oracle clients.
Hundreds of desktops to upgrade.

 


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of GovindanK
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:27 PM
To: Mark Strickland
Cc: John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Oracle and DST changes

 

The one off patch which Oracle is suggesting is 4689959 per Metalink
Note 359145.1 ; You would need to patch Solaris as well.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102178-1
<http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102178-1>  if
not already done.

 I recommend you take a look at Table 2 of Note:359145.1 which in turn
leads to Note:396387.1 for Solaris 64-Bit.

HTH

GovindanK

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:58:49 -0800, "Mark Strickland"
<strickland.mark@xxxxxxxxx> said:
 

        Note #402742.1 explains the issue pretty well.  I didn't know
that there actually is a one-off patch available for some versions of
Oracle on some platforms.  I'm undecided about whether or not I'm going
to apply the one-off patch.  Looks like a very low-risk patch.  I
certainly cannot consider moving to the 10.2.0.3 <http://10.2.0.3/>
patchset.  We're are on 10.1.0.5 <http://10.1.0.5/>  ( Solaris 9
64-bit), do not use java inside the database, do not use TSTZ or TSLTZ
outside of the data dictionary and the TZ_OFFSET function is not used,
BUT we are in an affected time zone ( U.S. Pacific).  If the data
dictionary columns that use TSTZ or TSLTZ are only related to the
Scheduler, then it seems low risk to me to let the Scheduler be off by
an hour for a few weeks.  We do not use the Scheduler for any
application-related things.  It's just the automatic statistics
gathering that's affected as far as I can tell.  I'll be interested in
hearing more about what folks decide to do. 
        
        Regards,
        Mark Strickland
        Seattle, WA

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