Chapter 6. Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching

We have seen how the provisioning capabilities of the Oracle Enterprise Manager's Database Lifecycle Management (DBLM) Pack enable you to deploy fully patched Oracle Database homes and databases, as replicas of the gold copy in the Software Library of Enterprise Manager. However, nothing placed in production should be treated as static. Software changes in development cycles, enhancements take place, or security/functional issues are found. For almost anything in the IT world, new patches are bound to be released. These will also need to be applied to production, testing, reporting, staging, and development environments in the data center on an ongoing basis.

For the database side of things, Oracle ...

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