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Lisa - I agree with Tom (always a good move). The way I would put the question is: "do you have a large production database that you think you will have to upgrade at some point if the future?" If the answer is "yes", then I think you should practice the upgrade now. If the answer is "no", then forget it, just do another install. The upgrade will involve learning things you don't want to know.
Now my pet peeve is that the Oracle Installer will try to upgrade
your database for you, assuming that you are a dumb user that needs to be
taken care of.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:44 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Lisa,
As far as I'm concerned, I would trash your existing instance and start over.
The only real reason to perform a migration is to preserve an existing database. In your case, you have nothing except for a vanilla instance which can be re-created easily.
On the other hand, if you wish to see what must be done to perform a migration, and you have the time, you can follow the migration steps.
Just my own little 2 cents.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:13 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi everyone -
I have recently installed an instance of Oracle, version 8.1.7 on a Sun Solaris machine (running 2.6). I have the base instance completed, and am waiting for the clients to finalize their design.
Now, after discussing it, we've decided we should try to implement on 9i instead. At this point - am I better off starting over and installing 9i, or would an upgrade of the instance be better? I'm interested both from a time perspective and from the complexity of the tasks, as well as the probability that it will work.
Thanks in advance for any input!
Lisa Yttri
IBM Global Services
Oracle Database Administration
(262) 636-6797
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