One of my customer asked me some days ago to create a PowerShell script to patch its SQL Server instances. After a reflection time, the first step will be to download the last Service Pack and the last Cumulative Update depending of the SQL Server version and after to apply those patches to the SQL Server instances. In this blog…
Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first test database is available. Trust me, it’s hard to do better. For some reason, for example if you need to patch to the latest release…
Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of the customers won’t patch so often, but one patch a year is quite a good average. But when comes the time for patching, comes the time…
