DataPatch: patch 23177536: The database must be in upgrade mode <- are you serious!?

29. September 2016 Uncategorized 2
Today I applied the latest patchset 12.1.0.2.160719  (July 2016) and afterwards I executed datapatch tool, but got a really stupid error: [oracle/ACME1@acme01 OPatch]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL> select  PATCH_ID, PATCH_UID, VERSION, STATUS, DESCRIPTION      from DBA_REGISTRY_SQLPATCH      order by BUNDLE_SERIES;       no rows selected [oracle/ACME1@acme01 OPatch]$ ./datapatch -verbose SQL Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 ...