How to Install an Oracle Applications Patch

Edited by Rob Dominguez, Nicole Willson, Sondra C, Rob S and 3 others

Every decent DBA ought to know how to patch his /her database. This is a stub, I'll work on it more later

Edit Steps

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Search meta-link for your patch and anything that supersedes it. Download the patch be aware that patches can be as big as 4 GB!

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Read the included "readme files".
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Run through all the steps in the readme... but do it on your test machine first, OK?

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