I got the same response as ard_jen.

Seems like a number of people are having trouble installing the patches anyway.

It's pretty poor since there is only limited detail. Everything on the metalink forumns seems to be going unanswered by Oracle.

Jmac, I told you that note was brief

I'm rapidly moving to the view, that we hold off until we get something more substantial from Larry's boys. Probably still have to upgrade the 8.1.7.0 DBMSs though.

Cheers

Nick