On January 18, Oracle unveiled its first quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory of the year. This advisory, a pivotal resource for Oracle users, details an array of 389 new security patches across various Oracle product families. This update includes several high-severity vulnerabilities, notably those that can be exploited remotely over the network, with some having […]
It is sometimes a bit of a hassle, to have the latest patch name or number on hand, when you need them. Ok, you may search on My Oracle Support and save it as custom search. But it may happen that the search is inaccurate and the required patch is not found. A much easier […]
There are several way’s to find information on internal oracle errors like ORA-00600 and ORA-07445. Looking up google is one of them, but not in any case the best one. If you are using Oracle Metalink you may just search for the ORA-00600 and the error code of first argument or use the ORA-600/ORA-7445/ORA-700 Error […]
Since a couple of week’s a bunch of patch are available for Oracle Database Firewall. The latest seems to be available since today.
For the CPU Patch test I’ll have to download a patch’s and patchset on a regular basis. Download the patch’s via a Web browser can be very time consuming. A download manager or a script based download is simplifying the patch download. As a side effect when downloading with a script, the files can be stored directly on the database or a staging server.
If time permits, I try to have a look once a day at the Knowledge Articles listed on my My Oracle Support (MOS) Dashboard. I’ve configured my Dashboard to show recently updated knowledge articles and alerts. Before Metalink was migrated to the flash based My Oracle Support, it was possible to configure a regularly e-mail […]