RE: new Patch Set Updates released
- From: "Herring Dave - dherri" <Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Martin Bach" <development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:49:43 -0600
I have a TON more reservations about applying just the CPU, when one time a CPU
changed the PQ Distribution method of a particular parallel query, for the
worse. I don't know what was worse - finding the problem and proving it was
the CPU or explaining it to the client and how we didn't catch that in testing.
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Allen, Brandon
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:13 PM
To: Martin Bach; ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: new Patch Set Updates released
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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