Comments on: It’s Oracle patch time again

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:55:52 +0000

A small point in that comments, I originally had the link after the last line. It made sense, then ;-)

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:25:26 +0000

Just to add some balancing argument to my previous blog post … I see that the CPU debate has popped up properly. (It must have - I had a journalist email me to comment on the subject!)

http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1377-CPUs-again-….html

Personally I think sites should apply CPUs but, if they aren’t, let’s talk about that honestly and look at the reasons why they aren’t.

Some more comment …

By: Doug's Oracle Blog

Doug's Oracle Blog — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:33:51 +0000

[…] experts. (Which isn’t to say that I think that’s a good thing!)Oh, and lest anyone forget, it’s CPU time again.Possibly my favourite of the bunch, though, was Glenn Fawcett’s Organizational stove-pipes […]

By: Marc Fielding

Marc Fielding — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:58:11 +0000

Hi Yasin, how often these patches are applied depends a lot on the downtime tolerance of the environment; I’d have to say that for the clients I normally work with it’s a minority though, due to the downtime requirements.

However, some of the remote exploits in the past are pretty serious, so I do think it’s important for DBA’s to be aware the risks they’re taking on by not applying them.

Marc

By: yas

yas — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:18:09 +0000

Marc, do your customers really apply these CPU’s? Or how many of them?

I do not think people are applying these, I have never met someone who applied them. Sure this does not mean nobody is applying them :-)

http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1330-The-Reality-Gap-1-Software-Maintenance.html