Configuring Read Only OracleHome - 18c

Starting with Oracle Database 18c, you can configure an Oracle home in read-only mode. In a read-only Oracle home, all the configuration data and log files reside outside of the read-only Oracle home. This feature allows you to use the read-only Oracle home as a software image that can be distributed across multiple servers.

The concept of a read-only Oracle home, Oracle has committed to to separate configuration files from binaries. The Configuring Read Only OracleHome 18c have impact on the following methods / DBCA / Patching / Upgrade / Key stores

Placing a Table in Read-Only Mode in Oracle 11g

New in Oracle 11g, you can place a table in read-only mode with the ALTER TABLE...READ ONLY statement, and return it to read/write mode with the ALTER TABLE...READ WRITE statement. An example of a table for which read-only mode makes sense is a configuration table. If your application contains configuration tables that are not modified after installation and that must not be modified by users, your application installation scripts can place these tables in read-only mode. The table is in read-only mode, operations that attempt to modify table data are disallowed.