RE: new Patch Set Updates released
- From: Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Martin Bach <development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:12:10 -0800 (PST)
Honestly? This is the first PSU I've ever released and I've never released a
CSU patch set. I've worked for companies where I had less influence and/or
experience where they had you implement every quarterly patch as part of SOX
compliance, etc. but it was before they even referred to them as PSU/CSU's and
it's been literally years since I've applied anything outside of a one-off
patch for a bug that I couldn't find a work around for.
I simply find that the cure is worse than the disease for most of my patching.
I patch for a bug then I have a new bug to contend with from the newly applied
patch. Not my idea of a fun way to work, (yes, I'm now putting in the work
around for bug 6367692 that resulted from me patching the PSU this last week..
and no, I don't know who's bright idea it was to alter sessions in packages and
go back to a manual workarea_size_policy for hashing and sorting because they
can't tune their SQL! :))
Kellyn Pedersen
Multi-Platform DBA
I-Behavior Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen
www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com
"Go away before I replace you with a very small and efficient shell script..."
--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: new Patch Set Updates released
To: "Martin Bach" <development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ORACLE-L"
<oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 11:12 AM
Thanks Martin. I’ve had the same position as you on patching for years,
especially since all our databases are on secured networks, we’ve never had a
(known) security breach, and we’re running ERP systems where testing requires a
major coordinated effort. But, I’m starting to worry that my luck must be
wearing thin and most malicious attacks are internal, plus I’ve seen a few
articles about worms and hacker programs for Oracle in the past few years so I
figured I should try changing my ways and get a bit more proactive before it’s
too late. I figure as long as I’m applying security updates (CPUs), I might as
well take the full plunge and apply the “low risk, high value” bug fixes in the
PSU too, but I’m just as skeptical as anyone about that “low risk” claim. So
far, I haven’t heard too many horror stories to scare me away, other than some
problems getting the one-off overlay patches if required, but my databases don’t
have a lot of one-off patches so I’m hoping I won’t have trouble there. I’m
just waiting for the green light from my developers to take some downtime and
patch their database, and then I’ll post my results - hopefully in a couple
days.
From: Martin Bach [mailto:development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
For what it's worth I'd never install any Oracle patch regardless . . .
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