Hi Niall, Exadata patching is a completely different beast (Frits could confirm-taking waiting to whole new levels) with its own cycle and release dependencies. For everyone else's RAC and Oracle Restart things are different with 11.2.0.2: Grid infrastructure is always an out of place patch, I.e you need a new Oracle home. The RDBMS binaries can be patched in place or out of place, the latter is preferred. For Linux RAC only: if you are on 11.2.0.1 you have to install a PSU (not sure if 11.2.0.1.1 or 11.2.0.1.2) before running rootupgrade.sh in your new Grid Home. I think this is documented as an alert in the 11.2.0.2 availability and ... mos note. Hth, Martin Martin Bach Oracle Certified Master 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach ----- Reply message ----- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 17:54 Subject: Patch sanity check To: <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <janine@xxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Yes and no 11.2.0.2 can be installed as a patch, the official word going forward is full install. Any folks running exadata - is that feasible. On 17 Feb 2011 17:46, <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Janine, if i'm reading this right, 11.2 and forward patches will be full installs(eventually forced into a new oracle home). Someone feel free to correct me. joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Engineering & Administration Lead (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 From: Janine Ohmer <janine@xxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l L < oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 02/17/2011 12:42 PM Subject: Patch sanity check Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Ah, the wonderful world of MOS! No wonder you all have been singing its praises! :) Fortunatel...