V$PATCHES

8.111 V$PATCHES

V$PATCHES shows the patches applied on an Oracle ASM instance and the list of patches applied to an Oracle Grid infrastructure home directory.

Note:

If this view is queried in an RDBMS instance, no patch information is returned.

Column Datatype Description

Column	Datatype	Description
`PATCH_ID`	`NUMBER`	Patch identifier
`CON_ID`	`NUMBER`	The ID of the container to which the data pertains. Possible values include: `0`: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to the entire CDB. This value is also used for rows in non-CDBs. `1`: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to only the root n: Where n is the applicable container ID for the rows containing data

PATCH_ID

NUMBER

Patch identifier

CON_ID

NUMBER

The ID of the container to which the data pertains. Possible values include:

0: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to the entire CDB. This value is also used for rows in non-CDBs.
1: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to only the root
n: Where n is the applicable container ID for the rows containing data