What about client patching?
Every now and then, there’s a question in the My Oracle Support Community:, especially after a new Release Update has been released: “How can I patch my Oracle client?” or “Where can I find the patches for my Oracle client?”. Let’s take a look at this issue.
New kid on the block – let’s install “Database Release Update 12.2.0.1.170718”
At the DOAG database conference in May, Andrew Mendelsohn announced that Oracle will change the release schedule to annual releases and that patch naming will be changed to “Release Updates” (RU). The latter started – as announced – in July 2017 and now the first “Database Release Update” is available.Let’s start patching.