Archive for September, 2008

Can I Apply an Oracle Security Patch to a RAC Database Without Taking Downtime?

Friday, September 5th, 2008

In short, it depends. The first step involved with applying an Oracle CPU is using the OPatch tool to apply the patch to the required Oracle Homes. This requires that no processes are running out of the home at the time of patching. This requirement does mean that the instances running on one instance on [...]