Igor Racic <igor.racicC@freesurf.fr_no_C> wrote in message news:<4138e7a2$0$13697$636a15ce@news.free.fr>...
> Karen Byrd wrote:
> > Several patches that I need to install have this caveat in their READ
> > ME files:
> >
> > You must have NO OTHER PATCHES installed on your Oracle server
> > since the latest patch set...
> >
> > How does one install all needed patches when this disclaimer exists?
>
> Normally, in text should be somewhere that in this case before
> applaying, you should get positive response from Oracle Support...
>
> I think that's the point. Probably you could get, in various conditions,
> unexpected results from mix of different back-port/problem-specific
> patches...
>
> Igor

such as:

call us on Tuesday with anything other than a sev-1 TAR?

support thyself, unless its an ora-600.
test it yourself with your app, your app schema.

-bdbafh