Re: Different Oracle homes for development, test, training ... environments

Best practice is also to use a separate home for ASM than for your database instances if on the same box, for the very same reason of not having to upgrade/patch both if you don't want to.

Don.

On 4/25/07, EPA <epanosian_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are going to separate the Oracle homes based on our promotion model (Dev,
> TST, QA, Training, ...). In this way we can apply patches to each
> environment and use the same promotion model. A few months ago, Oracle
> support suggested to us to separate Database Oracle Home from agent Oracle
> Home.
> Anybody has any experience regarding different Oracle homes on the same
> server? One Oracle home for all databases vs. one Oracle home for each
> environment. Cons/pros...
>
> Oracle 10g,
> Windows 2003
>
> Regards,
> Estifan
>
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