Tag Archives: datapatch

OJVM and DBA_REGISTRY_SQLPATCH

I woke up this morning and did what I do most days – doomscroll through twitter. One of the benefits of being in the US is that there are usually some interesting discussions going on with people I follow in Europe. I saw an interesting question from Martin Berger: I’ve had my fights with datapatch… Read More »

Parallelizing datapatch execution

When applying quarterly PSUs to an Oracle database, there are generally two steps – one step that applies updates to the binaries inside the Oracle home, and one step that updates objects inside the database catalog via registry$sqlpatch. The first step has long been performed with OPatch, but beginning with Oracle 12.1.0.1, the second task… Read More »