Re: Doc.ID 756671.1 Oracle Recommended Patches

  • From: Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx, "Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx" <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:27:44 -0700 (PDT)

That is interestign we just hit a couple of logical dataguard issues and were 
asked to apply a recommended patch cluster for 10.2.0.4 to fix the issue.



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From: D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx" <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx>; 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:35:26 AM
Subject: RE: Doc.ID 756671.1 Oracle Recommended Patches

Hi,

I normally apply them when setting up a new environment or after upgrading an 
existing one, but I don't (yet) actively apply them on existing stable 
environments.
Mainly because our customers often don't have an active patching policy and 
it's hard to convince them to patch a system which is not giving any problems 
(yet).
Mind you that some of these bugs fixed are bugs that are quite nasty, like a 
bug in flashback database. If you hit that one, it's to late to patch.


regards,


Freek D'Hooge
Uptime
Oracle Database Administrator
e-mail: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx
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Sent: 21 April 2009 17:40
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Subject: Doc.ID 756671.1 Oracle Recommended Patches

Is anyone patching database according to this:
"
Subject: Oracle Recommended Patches -- Oracle Database  Doc ID: 756671.1
Type: ANNOUNCEMENT  Modified Date : 15-APR-2009 Status: PUBLISHED

Beginning with release 10.2.0.3, Oracle releases Recommended Patches for
Oracle Database. For an introduction to Recommended Patches, see Note
756388.1.
"

Any positive experiences ?

Because I am working on a new project (some projects are still not canceled
in these  times) I am wondering about apply-all-recommended-patches
approach.

It looks tempting to get rid of most of nasty bugs that manage to surface
anyway.
Especially that we are beeing forced to use Oracle Streams which are
somewhat outstanding with regard to Oracle recommended minimal patch list.
Oracle Physical Standby (aka Data Guard)  is on the list too.

Normally we go the way "wait until problem happens"(aka if it ain't broke
don't fix it) and then try find workarround or patch but we have already
encountered some bugs that could have been fixed by applying recommended
patch bundles. Since it is a new project it looks to be an option.

What the others say about all those recommended patch bundles?


Thank you in advance,

Laimis N.







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