Series Week 20 / 52 — Differentiating Patching differences between Exadata On Prem and OCI Databases (DB Systems and ExaCS)

{ Abhilash Kumar Bhattaram : Follow on LinkedIn } Moving on from the previous week 19 ( from my previous blog ) https://dev.to/nabhaas/week-19-52-oracle-databases-choosing-between-on-prem-or-any-cloud-oci-aws-gcp-azure--5b0p While understanding the ExaCS vs Exadata On Prem , we are trying to comprehend the patching differences to manage Exadata On Prem vs ExaCS , a cloud environment is still a war when compared to On Prem nevertheless its still the DBA's capability the rules to manage these machines. Some useful refresher for Oracle On Prem - Exadata Patching https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata/exadata-mos-notes https://www.oracle.com/a/tech/docs/exadata-software-maintenance-2022.pdf Some useful refresher for Oracle OCI - ExaCS Patching https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/exadatacloud/doc/ecs-patch-update.html A quick tabular differences of On Prem Patching and OCI Class of databases -- On Prem +----------------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ | Component