How To Find Out The List Of Patches Applied Without Using Inventory
Jul 23, 2012
I have been asked this question once.
How will you find out the list of patches applied to Oracle Database Home without using commands like opatch lsinventory -detal etc...
I think registry$history is a view from where we can find out the list of patches applied.
But I think it will not include all the bug fixes,stand alone or one-off patches.It will mainly list out the CPU patches applied(correct me if I am wrong).
Does EM have a utility that I can get to scan a set of host machines and their disks and tell me what oracle products are installed? Sort of like that common inventory tool used on windows desktops, but just for Oracle products.
If not EM then any third party tool or some other Oracle tool?
outlining 'key' differences between databases / configuration / hardware that can potentially make a difference to what results you get when running sql / pl/sql - I am trying to find a check list to use against PROD / DEV / TEST environments.
In my environment found maximum open cursor exceeds error. So how can I found the open cursor list and how can I close that cursor without restarting. Any SQL commands to close the open cursor.
We have almost 400 production two-node RAC clusters in the environment I manage - all these sites have databases where the database name is exactly the same, so using Grid Control right now isn't in the cards (and yes - I am working on assigning them all a unique name ). We want to use IBM's BIGFIX to deploy patch 32 on top of 10.2.0.3 for Windows Itanium. BigFix runs as a user different from that used to install the Oracle software originally. There is nothing in the patch notes to suggest that you must use a certain Windows user to install the patch - so the question is, does it matter what Windows User I use as long as they are an 'Administrator' equivalent?
how do you perform mass updates/patches in your Windows server environments? I am looking for examples outside of Grid Control - which I know would work if only my predecessor didn't name these databases the same .
Im applying patch which is an upgrade to 10.2.0.5 from 10.2.0.3. Its a 2 node RAC. While applying patches the installer mentioned space are sufficient, but while applying patches it throws message that in oracle home space not sufficient. Im able to apply patches in cluster home successfully. How much space required in oracle home for this patch? There is no information mentioned the document as well.
My client asked me to "apply the newest patch" on his RAC 10.2.0.5 environment on Windows.
I've downloaded 10.2.0.5 Patch 20 (the newest version).
My question is: Should i apply it using OPatch to both: ORACLE_HOME and CRS_HOME? or only in ORACLE_HOME? What with 10.2.0.5.2 CRS Patch? Should i apply earlier CPU patches?
Recently, my client side report runtime experience the following bug:
--> ORA-0999:UnImplemented Error
When user attempts to convert the generated report into PDF format.
I had found out from the net that by applying the following: Patch 18 for Windows Client/Server Forms 6i.
The Ora-0999 bug will be resolved. True enough the bug has been resolved.
However, I had chanced a post recently and this raised my concern on whether I had done the patching correctly.
From the post it stated that,
Quote:Forms 6i ( stand alone ) is currently desupported/extended support. So patch 17 is the last one.
2. Forms 6i is still supported for Ebusiness Suite. Hence patche 18 is the latest patch for form 6i with fixes specific to ebusiness suite. There might be an another patch for forms6i later but specific to ebusiness suite. This is because Forms 6i is supported for EB.
If you are not using Forms along with EB then I dont think the new patches are useful. So remaining at patch 17 is recommended.
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FYI, I had only selected the custom installation with only the Report Runtime to be patch over the previous version.
I have one requirement.I am populating LOV dynamically for the subinventory field in the order form through custom.pll.
If Dropship flag= 'Y' then populate suninv LOV with D1,d2..values.If it is 'N' then populate suninv LOV with w01,w02,....values.This is done and working fine in the form.But If i save dropship flag='Y' and Subinv value is D1 then it saves the record.Now I am changing Drop ship flag as 'N' then 'D1' value appearing in the SUBINV field.and it allow the save changes.
So How can i refresh Lov at the time of making drop ship flag as 'Y'/'N'?
I am trying create one Inventory label report with bar code ,This reports working fine stand alone,Once i am added this report on Oracle Apps concurrent Program ,Output came without bar code.
I am having a problem with auto populating different fields based on inventory no. field.. This is a bug giving to me to work on and i not able to figure out how to populate the other fields.
How to set any triggers for the items to auto populate and i am suppose to finish this work today.
I am working on SLES 11 SP2 on zLinux and I am trying to install oracle 11gr2 silently. I was able to install the GI and it is running but when I try to install the oracle binaries I keep getting this error:
[FATAL] [INS-32035] Unable to create a new central inventory directory : /opt/oraInventory. CAUSE: The central inventory location provided is not empty.
The GI install created /opt/oraInventory and all the files are in there. I even changed the owner from grid:oinstall to oracle:oinstall but that did not work. When I did the install on SLES 11 SP1 I did not get this error.
I got a primary database with a logical standby database running Oracle 11g. I got two client applications, one is the production site pointing to the primary one, another one is just a backup site pointing to the logical one.Things will only be written into the primary database every mid night and client applications can only query the database but not add, update nor delete.And now, I want to apply the latest patch on both of my databases. I am also the DNS administrator, I can make the name server pointing to the backup site instead of the production one.I want to firstly apply the patch on the logical one, and then the physical one.
I found some reference which explains how to apply patches by adopting "Rolling Upgrade Method". however, I want to avoid doing any "switch over" mentioned in the reference because I can make use of name server. Can I just apply patches as the following way?
1)Stop SQL apply 2)Apply patches on logical standby database 3)let the name server point to the backup site 4)Apply patches on the primary database 5)Start SQL apply 6)Let the name server point back to the production site
I applied this patch in our development environment. After validation, I need to apply the same in production, training and publication environments. The detailed information follows :
PowerPC_POWER5 / aix 5300-12 OPatch utility used : 11.2.0.3.0 OUI version : 11.2.0.2.0 Prereq "checkConflictAgainstOHWithDetail" passed. Composite patch 13923804 successfully applied. OPatch Session completed with warnings.
I have applied offline patch *10417948* on my database. How can see that patch applied on database/OH or not? I have applied one online patch few months ago....in that i have applied that patch on each database after installing it...using command :
when i execute a command opatch lsinventory -details i got the following output :
+Interim patches (2) :
Patch 10417948 : applied on Sat Feb 23 13:42:49 IST 2013 Unique Patch ID: 14586154 Created on 18 Oct 2012, 06:52:32 hrs PST8PDT Bugs fixed: 10417948 [code].......
For offline patch is it required to enable patch on every database?
I have a setup where i have one physical and logical standby from a primary database. In case of switch over between primary and physical database my logical apply gets stopped. Can a logical database be applied from a physical standby ?
