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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="line21"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://autobahn.esri.com/esri/etrack.aspx?DSN=b9ca57b2fbe8cb42458807853387983f6a0f6be5ccdab113&FORMID=a88634312a5294d91fb9e7e66463ae9a&AUDID=9eb20900165aa4c114edab6065c8ab93&EMAILID=ec77f43b89a8a4ea8927396577f2f91dcc8dacf6a45ff970&DECODE=1&INTID=29f077164fd3d46b66c7126c87d4d4d4&URL=http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/43293?utm_source=esri&utm_medium=email&utm_term=73110&utm_content=headline&utm_campaign=oracle_patch_2014"><b><span style="font-size:16.5pt;color:#222222;text-decoration:none">Critical
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">Please be aware that if the recent
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Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU)</a> released on <b>October 14th, 2014</b> is installed on your Oracle database, connecting to the Oracle database will crash ArcGIS.
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">This issue only affects you if you use Oracle. All versions of ArcGIS are impacted by this CPU.
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">What You Need to Do</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">If you have not yet installed the patch listed above,
<b>do not install it</b>, per Esri's recommendation.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#007AC3;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">If you have installed the patch listed above, Esri recommends that you roll it back to restore normal operations.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">Esri and Oracle are working closely to understand and resolve the problem.
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D">For specific details, see
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Esri Knowledge Base article 43293</a>.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4D4D4D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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