Re: Question about patch levels

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:19:18 +0100

I can't speak for Charles, but sometimes this is a sensible idea in the
event of wishing to roll back an upgrade, or more generally when you have
multiple database applications on the same server, then the slowest/most
difficult to update doesn't hold everyone back. .

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We do not have separate homes.
> I install 10.2.0.3 in oracle/product/10.2.0 and I upgrade this home and the
> database when I move to 10.2.0.4.
> Patch level also goes into this home.
>
> Why do you use 3 homes?
>
> Adar Yechiel
> Rechovot, Israel
>
>
>
> Taylor, Chris David wrote:
>
> Ultimately I knew it wasn't like this but I was hoping it was.
>
> How do you guys setup your Oracle homes for different versions?  I had
> originally wanted to do something like \oracle\product\10.2.0.4.24\db_1 for
> upgraded homes, but decided against it.
>
> So now I have
> \oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1 (10.2.0.2)
> \oracle\product\10.2.0\db_2 (10.2.0.4 Patch 7)
> \oracle\product\10.2.0\db_3 (10.2.0.4 Patch 24)
>
>
>


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Niall Litchfield
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