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Looking for installed patches on the database I have always used opatch lsinventory (since 9.2 and up) From CPUJan2006 onwards you can just query select * from registry$history; See Metalink Note:352783.1 for more information.

Central Inventory location is determined by oraInst.loc located in: HP/Solaris /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc Linux /etc/oraInst.loc Windows \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle\inst_loc To check if all oracle homes are registered within the Central Inventory run the following command: ${ORACLE_HOME}/oui/bin/opatch lsinventory -all Invoking OPatch 10.2.0.3.0 Oracle interim Patch Installer version 10.2.0.3.0 Copyright (c) 2005, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.. Oracle Home : /software/oracle/OEM10gR2/agent10g Central Inventory : /software/oracle/oraInventory from : /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc OPatch version : 10.2.0.3.0 OUI version : 10.2.0.3.0 OUI location : /software/oracle/OEM10gR2/agent10g/oui Log file location : /software/oracle/OEM10gR2/agent10g/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch....log Lsinventory Output file location : /software/oracle/OEM10gR2/agent10g/cfgtoollogs/....lsinventory.....txt ----------------------------------... List of Oracle Homes: ...