Patching Oracle 12.2 Grid Infrastructure before setting up a cluster
One of the first steps after setting up an Oracle cluster is patching the Grid Infrastructure to the most current patchlevel. Usually this has to be done on all cluster nodes separately and requires some time and effort. But what about patching the software before setting up the cluster?
New kid on the block – let’s install “Database Release Update 12.2.0.1.170718”
At the DOAG database conference in May, Andrew Mendelsohn announced that Oracle will change the release schedule to annual releases and that patch naming will be changed to “Release Updates” (RU). The latter started – as announced – in July 2017 and now the first “Database Release Update” is available.Let’s start patching.
DBCA 12.2 runs datapatch automatically
It was one of the issues with Oracle 12c Release 1 that datapatch was not executed by dbca automatically. So, if you had installed patches to your Oracle home before running dbca, dbca did not take this into consideration and ran datapatch to apply the SQL changes to the databases. In August 2015 Mike Dietrich…