Re: Upgrade to 8.1.7.2 on Linux -- an interesting happening

Yes - same thing - just applied the 8172 patch yesterday to two 817 Standard Edition servers on SuSE 7.2 and they both now indicate Enterprise Edition with all the options enabled.

• Bill.

At 14:20 20/09/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Today we upgraded one of our 8.1.7.0.1 _STANDARD EDITION_ distributions on a
>test server to 8.1.7.2.
>
>An interesting thing happened.
>
>After we brought up the test database we had running on the machine, it came
>up indicating that we were running the _ENTERPRISE EDITION_ of Oracle. A
>query of v$option showed that we were, indeed, running the Enterprise
>Edition of Oracle.
>
>Just for grins, we restored the old 8.1.7.0.1 distribution, brought up the
>old database, and it was running under the Standard Edition.
>
>Has anyone else done an upgrade to 8.1.7.2? Anyone notice the same thing?
>
>We think it's great of Oracle to provide us a patch allowing us to
>seamlessly switch to the Enterprise Edition.
>
>Somehow, though, I don't think that's what they're trying to do here...
>
>--Walt Weaver
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