Patches

Excuse me while I rant a little.

I still consider myself pretty new to Oracle. For about 3 years now, I've been applying the Critical Patch Updates (CPU) to about 9 pairs of Windows Servers. Each pair has one server which runs the database and one server that runs the application server. After all of this time, it still just amazes me how hard it is to patch an Oracle System.

If you complain about Microsoft Patches, then you really should move over to Oracle's side of the street. Here's just a few reasons why: