Solaris 9 patches for Oracle 9.2.0.5

Gautrak

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Jun 29, 2004, 7:37:16 AM6/29/04

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Hello,
I am unable to find the list of required patches on Solaris 9 (64 bit)
for Oracle 9.2.0.5
Installation guide on OTN seems to be carrying quite old info.
could someone help me with the list or the location where I can find
this.

Thanks in advance,
Gautrak

John Hurley

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Jun 29, 2004, 6:02:36 PM6/29/04

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Well Solaris 9 has been out for a long time now so probably the "bare
minimum" patches needed for 9i rel 2 or specifically 9.2.0.5 hasn't
really changed for a while. Recommended patches from sun are diff
from what oracle needs.

If it's a dev system then why not go for latest sun patchset then
apply 9.2.0.5 which of course relinks. But 9.2.0.5 isn't exactly
squeaky clean.

Paul Drake

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Jun 30, 2004, 1:17:17 AM6/30/04

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johnb...@sbcglobal.net (John Hurley) wrote in message news:<d4d6f278.04062...@posting.google.com>...

Yes, but 9.2.0.6 will fix all of those issues ...
that are identified in time, maybe.
No wait, :bug_number will be fixed in 10.1.0.3 ... perhaps 10.1.0.4.

Pd

Gautrak

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Jun 30, 2004, 2:30:47 AM6/30/04

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This will be a production database (non-RAC) upgraded from existing
8.1.7 db of approx 120 GB. which version of 9i should we consider then
?

By "then apply 9.2.0.5", do you mean patchset provided by oracle ?
Sorry, I am a newbie and hopefully get due consideration.

Thanks,
Gautrak

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sybr...@yahoo.com

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Jun 30, 2004, 8:51:48 AM6/30/04

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gau...@yahoo.com (Gautrak) wrote in message news:<76ceef56.04062...@posting.google.com>...

> This will be a production database (non-RAC) upgraded from existing
> 8.1.7 db of approx 120 GB. which version of 9i should we consider then
> ?
>
> By "then apply 9.2.0.5", do you mean patchset provided by oracle ?
> Sorry, I am a newbie and hopefully get due consideration.
>
> Thanks,
> Gautrak
>

If this is a clean Solaris system (ie it doesn't have Oracle on it) I
would go for Sun's recommended patches. Sun can be quite nasty anyway
when you didn't apply all patches they recommend or view as mandatory.
Then you would install 9ir2 from CD (which isn't identical to the
9.2.0.5 patch release).
Then you would apply the 9.2.0.5 patch. As you aren't running Oracle
yet, there is no reason why you shouldn't upgrade to the latest
available patchset.

Hth

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Connor McDonald

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Jun 30, 2004, 10:04:57 AM6/30/04

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Note that 9.2.0.5 insists upon a certain level of java patches. I can't
remeber whether it was Sol8 or Sol9 we were installing on, but the
installer basically gave a message along the lines of "I'm not going any
further until you patch java to version x.y.z"

hth
connor
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