Finding the latest Oracle Client

I need to upgrade the Client on an application server, and so started the long and complicated search for the latest V11GR2 Windows 64bit one.

It's not as hard as I thought, but harder than it should be.

In case you don't know, the client software is bundled with the Database Server software - obvious, isn't it?

Anyway, this is how to get it (and you don't have to download everything).

Go to support.oracle.com
Make sure your browser allows pop-ups (thanks Oracle, a throwback to the 90s).

Click on the "Patches & Updates" tab, then on the "Latest Patchsets" link.

If nothing happens, check your pop-ups setting.

If it's OK, a new window will open. Click on "Oracle Database", then use the very clunky navigation method to select the version you want and click on it:

Another window will open, this time with a link to the patchset. Click on that:

The client is hidden in one of these files - to find out which one, click on the "View Readme" button, then on the "software availability" link.

It should take you to this:

So that's the file you need to download for the client.

Why they don't just have a separate link to it I don't know.