OPatch Options!

A friend of mine was working to apply the July 2013 PSU, and had to rollback two one off patch conflicts. Since the instance was cloned from production, OPatch was failing with this error… $ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch rollback -id 12834800 The patch should be applied/rolled back in ‘-all_nodes’ mode only. Converting the RAC mode to ‘-all_nodes’ … Read more

Oracle Database 12c Licensing Trivia!

Was reading the licensing doc, and this is a note to self… [any decisions must be based on the licensing doc and not this blog]. Couple of things not changed… Almost all “cool” features are available only in EE edition. Almost all “cool” features outside of storing data requires some kind of “Extra Cost” option I … Read more