Release Update 19.9 Features

Oracle Grid Infrastructure SwitchHome

You can use the -switchGridHome option with gridSetup.sh to switch from one Oracle Grid Infrastructure home to another.

You can use the -switchGridHome option for patching and upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Use the -switchGridHome option to switch from the source Oracle Grid Infrastructure home to the patched Oracle Grid Infrastructure home. All Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Restart services start from the patched Oracle Grid Infrastructure home automatically.

Support for DBMS_CRYPTO Asymmetric Key Operations

Starting with this release, the DBMS_CRYPTO PL/SQL package supports asymmetric key operations, in addition to the existing support for symmetric key operations.

To implement the support for asymmetric key operations, the following procedures have been added to the DBMS_CRYPTO package:

• PKENCRYPT
• PKDECRYPT
• SIGN
• VERIFY