As Oracle prepares to dump a passel of 81 security fixes on its user base — including seven critical patch updates (CPUs) for its database product — many database administrators are preparing to patch their Oracle database platforms accordingly. According to a recent survey of its members, only 37 percent of organizations patch their systems within the same three-month cycle that CPUs are released. Approximately 28 percent either take a year or more to patch, have never applied a CPU, or don’t know how long it takes them to patch their databases.