HEADS UP! New Oracle Hotnews note was released today!

[janos_mucsi-besze]

Hi!

In case you didn't know this already. A new SAP Hotnews was released.

2011199 - SAP Bundle Patches (SBP) - structure changes starting with June 2014

As this is a major change in the patching procedure, you may read this before planning any SBP installation.

Regards,

János

[JimSpath]

My Oracle expert contact suggests that, as 11.2.0.4 is the terminal release and is out for SAP, customers may want to combine that patch with the ORACLE_HOME change the SBP note recommends.

See also Note 1431799 - Oracle 11.2.0: Current Patch Set

[janos_mucsi-besze]

Hi Jim,

Yes, right.

11.2.0.2 and older releases are no longer supported from Oracle (means from SAP as well), so these do not receive any SBP further on. We could say, currently 11.2.0.3 and 11.2.0.4 only is touched by this change.

The same procedure, changing the Oracle_Home is possible within the same release as well. Meaning, setting up a new Oracle_Home (install software) install the SBP there and use this new Oracle_Home for the same Oracle Instance later on. So the downtime, is minimal.

The whole procedure is documented in the below note:

1696869 Patching of Oracle Homes with Minimal Downtime

Regards,

János