| RANT |
I am just worn out trying to be supportive of the ridiculous lack of competence that has come to
be known as the Patches and Updates page of the Oracle Support Services, "My
Oracle Support," metalink website. Rather than driving a few miles and hiring someone from Apple
that knows how to build a decent user interface they seem to have picked up the worst-of-the-worst from Microsoft.
For years many of us have pointed out to the people that are the public face of OSS how they could make their website usable. And both we the customers, and
those well meaning public facing folks at Oracle, have been totally ignored by the people that design and administer the site. So, rather than doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting a different result, I am going to do what I know works. I am going to do it myself.
This page will provide the patch numbers, as I discover them, that allow us to move to currently supported and terminal release version of the Oracle
Database so that we can spend our time doing our jobs rather than fantasizing about what we would do if we could get our hands on those obstructionist middle
manager in Redwood Shores: People who appear to think a search for "database" patches means patches to PeopleSoft and countless other totally irrelevancies.
If you agree with me that the Metalink website is brain-dead please send an email and I will forward it to someone special in the 500 building.
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| Version I Have |
Version I Want To Have |
Metalink Patch # |
File Names |
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8.1.7.4 |
2376472 |
- |
| - |
9.0.1.5 |
3301544 |
- |
| - |
9.2.0.8 |
4547809 |
p4547809_92080_WINNT.zip |
| - |
10.1.0.5 |
4505133 |
- |
| - |
10.2.0.2 |
4547817 |
- |
| - |
10.2.0.3 |
5537014 |
- |
| 9.2.0.8 |
10.2.0.5 |
8202632 |
p8202623_10205_Win32.zip
p8202623_10205_MSWIN-x86-64.zip
p8202623_10205_linux-x86.zip
p8202623_10205_Linux-x86-64.zip
p8202623_10205_Solaris86-64.zip
p8202623_10205_Solaris-64.zip (Sparc) |
| 9.2.0.8 |
11.1.0.7 |
6890831 |
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| 9.2.0.8 |
11.2.0.1 |
- not yet located - |
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| 10.2.0.1 |
10.2.0.5 |
8202632 |
p8202623_10205_Win32.zip
p8202623_10205_MSWIN-x86-64.zip
p8202623_10205_linux-x86.zip
p8202623_10205_Linux-x86-64.zip
p8202623_10205_Solaris86-64.zip
p8202623_10205_Solaris-64.zip (Sparc) |
| 10.2.0.1 |
11.1.0.7 |
6890831 |
- |
| 10.2.0.1 |
11.2.0.1 |
- not yet located - |
- |
| 10.2.0.4 |
11.1.0.7 |
6890831 |
- |
| 10.2.0.4 |
11.2.0.1 |
- not yet located - |
- |
| 11.1.0.6 |
11.1.0.7 |
6890831 |
- |
| 11.1.0.6 |
11.2.0.1 |
- not yet located - |
- |
| 11.1.0.7 |
11.2.0.1 |
- not yet located - |
- |
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| Screen Shots |
Thank you HJL and TLH
There have been a lot of positive responses to my Tweet about this page and help in putting it together: A work still in progress.
Here is a screen shots that may help you navigate the nightmare.
Obviously screen shots being a new technology are unavailable to the coders at MOS who are still knocking back beers congratulating themselves on making
the world's slowest Flash application.
You will note this is the "Advanced Search" page ... The so-called "Basic Search" being "Basically Useless."
Perhaps I am being unkind. They should rename it to "Total Search" as it is totally useless. |
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If URL length can be considered an inverse measurement of page quality ... here is the URL that
corresponds to the search image:
https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/AdvancedSearch/ process_form?search_style=9&
language=0&patch_type=patchset&
incl_prod=&incl_prod_checked=yes&
release=80101030&release=80101040&
release=80101050&release=80102010&
release=80102020&release=80102030&
release=80102040&release=80111070&
release=8073230&release= 8073350&
release=8073360&release=8073420&
release=8073430&release=8073440&
release=8073450&release= 8080300&
release=8080320&release=8080420&
release= 8080430&release=8080440&
release=8080510&release=8080520&
release=8080610&release=8080620&
release= 8080630&release=8081500&
release=8081510&release=8081610&
release=8081620&release=8081630&
release= 8081720&release=8081740&
release=8090140&release=8090150&
release=8092050&release=8092060&
release= 8092070&release=8092080&
plat_lang=116P&plat_lang=162P&
plat_lang=168P&plat_lang=173P&
plat_lang=197P&plat_lang=198P&
plat_lang=208P&plat_lang=209P&
plat_lang=21P&plat_lang=211P&
plat_lang=212P&plat_lang=214P&
plat_lang=221P&plat_lang=226P&
plat_lang=227P&plat_lang=23P&
plat_lang=233P&plat_lang=24P&
plat_lang=243P&plat_lang=267P&
plat_lang=28P&plat_lang=285P&
plat_lang=30P&plat_lang=319P&
plat_lang=358P&plat_lang= 361P&
plat_lang=38P&plat_lang=421P&
plat_lang= 453P&plat_lang=46P&
plat_lang=476P&plat_lang=501P&
plat_lang=59P&plat_lang=601P&
plat_lang=611P&plat_lang=612P&
plat_lang=70P&plat_lang= 724P&
plat_lang=87P&plat_lang=89P&
plat_lang=912P&plat_lang=93P&
plat_lang=999P&product=9480&
show_default=y#query_link |
Have you found an important patch I can add to this page?
If so please email it to me and I will post it.
DBA's around the world will live longer and thank you.
I know I will. |
