I have a quick question:

Does the Oracle Home on the server(/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7)
ever get updated during the normal day to day operations of the Database?

Or it only gets updated when a patch, etc is explicitly installed
into that home?

Personally, I think the Oracle Home does not get updated during the
normal day to day operations of the Database but I might be wrong?

Thanks,
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