Datapatch while users/applications are connected?

  • From: Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:44:51 -0500

I've got a guy telling me its perfectly fine to run datapatch on a database
while users & applications have reconnected.   (In this example, patching
from 19.14 to 19.17)

How many of you guys do that?

I understand from reading about it that you _can_ do that.  I don't
understand _why_ you would do that?

What if datapatch runs into an exception?

Is it not risky to allow users and applications into the database before
the all the steps are finished?

I'm wondering if I'm missing something here I guess?

Thanks,
Chris

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