General 9.2 PUM/Change Assistant patching questions
Hi all,
I need some help from any of you experienced with PUM/CA related to system availability and the handling of invalid views after patching through PUM/CA.
For starters we are hosted by Oracle Manage Cloud Services they apply all of out patching for us, and due to the infrastructure they operate the PUM and CA I have no insight to them.
I have a patch that I want applied that comes with approx 142 prerequisites. When Oracle applied the patches to our demo instance all in all it took about 3 days, Oracle insists that the actual patching was only about 10-12 hours of that. Now we are in the process of applying the patches to dev. Initially, CA ran for 5 days and still did not finish the patching. Oracle tweaked the CA and were able to complete the patching in 2 days, but this patching resulted in 600 invalidated views. It will now take some Oracle some time to