Patching

Patching or reimaging your ODA?

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,(…)

Reimaging an old X3-2/X4-2 ODA

Introduction X3-2 and X4-2 ODAs are still very capable pieces of hardware in 2018. With 256GB of RAM and at least 16 cores per node, and with 18TB RAW disk capacity as a standard these appliances are far from obsolete(…)

SQL Server 2016: patching CU with R Services

As a good DBA, I begin to be up to date with all Cumulative Update (CU) by my customers. It is the first time that I run an update for SQL Server 2016 with the CU 3. I(…)

How to patch Postgres Plus Advanced Server in a Standby configuration

In the last post we looked at how you can patch a Postgres Plus Advanced server. Wouldn't it be nice, in a standby configuration, to patch the standby first without touching the master, then do a controlled(…)

How to patch Postgres Plus Advanced Server

As with any other software there comes the time when you need to patch your Postgres Plus Advanced Server instances. Is that different from patching Community PostgreSQL? Yes and no :) The difference is(…)

SQL Server: Now Cumulative Updates (CU) need to be install!

 Since this year, Microsoft recommends to install Cumulative Updates (CU) like Service Packs (SP) In the past, Microsoft always recommended to apply the Service Packs and security fixes for SQL Server. Cumulative Updates were applied only if(…)

Upgrading PostgreSQL to a new major release

The last post looked into how to upgrade PostgreSQL to a new minor version. In this post I’ll look into how to upgrade PostgreSQL to a new major version. This is not as simple as just installing(…)

Patching PostgreSQL to a new minor release

If you are used to patch Oracle databases you probably know how to use opatch to apply PSUs. How does PostgreSQL handle this? Do we need to patch the existing binaries to apply security fixes? The answer is: No.

Oracle OPatch and “Archive not applied” error

Recently, I have installed an Oracle 11.2.0.4 RDBMS on a server, and I wanted to install the latest Patch Set Update (PSU) 11.2.0.4.4 from October 2014. During the execution, I fell on the error “Archive not applied” and the job(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – agent upgrade & patch

The new Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 release migration makes it necessary for the DBA to migrate the old agent version to 12.1.0.4. If your infrastructure has a huge number of agents and if you want to apply the agent(…)