Sorry, I forgot a Subject title!
Gurus,
I was just given a project to maintain a Computerized Maintenance
Management System. When I asked the companies support staff how to roll
back patches in the backend Oracle Database (Ver. 8174), they said that
there was no way to do this. I'm
Scott,
Of course, the answer is It depends.
It all depends on the kind of software patches that are being applied.
Are you talking about adding a column to a table that allows nulls? There
might not be a need to back this patch out - the column might be able to
stay depending on how it is used
Thanks to Thomas Mercadante, Stephen Lee and Rick Cale for their
responses. I think it's pretty unanimous that if this needs to be done, I
would just restore to the point in time taken right before the patches were
installed. Either I could do an export/restore/import or refresh from the
