Hi, On 4/19/05, Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > We don't have time for it during our outage window so we install it to > another Oracle home and then only switch oracle home and upgrade > catalog. >=20 > This was the answer on the first question as I undertsood it. The > second question I don't understand at all. ... > > When you do a patch do you patch everything at the same time, e.g. all > > RAC nodes and all their shared homes? Did patching influence your > > decision for same Oracle home? ... I was not clear on 2nd question, sorry. The "same Oracle home" was talking about RAC and non-RAC sharing. It seemed unusual to me, but I don't know that much. I suspected it would take too much time to patch all at once. I like your idea to install in another home, switch oracle home and upgrade catalog. Very nice. Thanks. Regards, Mike Thomas -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l