Re: preparing for first upgrade as dba

>
> > Also, what about the critical patch updates for
> > security and such. If I apply the latest the CPU, would that be
> > equivilant to applying the patch to get to 10.2.0.3?
>
> Depends. You need to search of the quarterly updates.
>
> Be sure you practice several times on a test machine before touching
> production and on production, make sure you not only have a full backup,
> but make sure you can restore from it.
>
> One of my clients, two months ago, did everything right except test
> their backup. It was rather ugly. (vendor update not an Oracle update).
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org

Thank you for the information. I do have a test environment that we will be utilizing.

I guess I shouldn't have been so specific, I didn't necessarily mean would the latest CPU bring me up to 10.2.0.3 but rather are patches included in CPUs or are they just security updates? Received on Mon May 21 2007 - 14:59:43 CDT