Re: Upgrading oracle 8i to 10g

From: Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:23:28 +0800
Message-ID: <5e30486205060602235f3bdeca@mail.gmail.com>

One idiosyncracy that the docs note is that 10g upgrades are only allowed from a compatible setting of 9.2 - this doesn't proclude going from 8i =3D> 10, it just means you have a weird compatible setting temporarily.

hth
connor

On 6/3/05, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> What version of 8i?
> If you make sure you are on 8.1.7.4 <http://8.1.7.4> then you can upgrade
> directly using the database upgrade assistant, which on 10g is actually
> really rather good. If you aren't you need to upgrade to 8174 first.
>=20
> If you wish to do a manual upgrade I believe that the migration guide has=
 a
> step by step - certainly the 10g patchsets have such step by step
> instructions.

>=20

> As always make sure you do this in test to begin with.
>=20
>=20

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