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.
Oracle Restart not deprecated anymore
Oracle Restart ist the Clusterware for single instance systems. You can use it to run a single instance system with (almost) the same commands as a cluster. For example, Oracle Restart takes over Starting and stopping of listeners and database instances. On “normal” Unix/Linux scripts you have to provide scripts for that. With the release…