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Patches and patching are significant topics and will, for the most part, be handled in Chapter 10. Here, however, we will take a brief look at the utility.
ADPATCH is a command line utility that allows you to easily install fixes and new products. Like many other utilities, it is menu driven and provides defaults for most of the answers. ADPATCH grows and changes, depending on which version of Apps you are using, but its basic functionality remains the same. It is driven from the command line and applies some patches to the database and most patches to the Apps layer. It prevents you (usually) from applying older files over newer ones and checks what you have installed fully or shared to determine what action to take on the application.
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