Author: Frederick Alvarez

Principal Software Developer at Oracle, I like coding and trying out stuff :)

Running datapatch on 18c on a freshly created database fails

Symptoms, Creating a database with a gold image of 18c patched with 18.16.0.0.211019 (33339024) Oct-2021 will create a CDB where

Download and Install Machine: 500GB HD, 4 CPUs, Network: Auto Partitions /boot 3G /scratch 20G / 477G (as LVM ext4)

Install epel-repository on Oracle Linux 7.9/Centos 7.x

do not attempt using because these need another lib

Execute async call to a magic function and then wait for them to finish

First create copy the spfile from ASM to filesystem Update the spfile location in the server config, before Doping the