With the advent of Oracle12c and "datapatch" utility, patching became an
adventure, from a routine task in 11G. Maybe Oracle 20c will improve on
that and deliver a reliable patching mechanism? However, I wouldn't
cherish any hopes, 20c will not be a part of "12c" products, it will be
a "new and improved version". And as the very first version of any "new
and improved" thing, it will probably be fairly buggy. It will be just
like Chevy Corvair - "unsafe at any speed".
On 12/3/19 4:57 AM, Noveljic Nenad wrote:
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Although I only have experience with the HA configurations, I would have to agree. We've found the ODA patching process, for instance, to be *far* more fragile and failure-prone than a normal cluster... I'm not joking when I say that we've been opening a SR for a new and improved patching failure every single quarter.
