Re: Upgrading OS from Win 2003 to Win 2003 R2

From: Ryan January <rjjanuary_at_multiservice.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:34:07 -0500
Message-ID: <5058784F.6090304_at_multiservice.com>

In a past life I did a direct migration from 2003 32 bit to 2003R2 64 bit with a simple datafile copy. It was as smooth as one could have hoped for. To insure minimal issues; prior to the migration I would want to patch the current DB server to the Oracle release you're intending to run on the new server.

On 09/18/2012 07:34 AM, Uzzell, Stephan wrote:
> I haven't done the exact migration you're describing, but similar: we migrated a handful of databases from 2003 R2 x64 to 2008 R2 x64. No issues. Oracle did not seem to care.
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> Stephan Uzzell
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> Subject: RE: Upgrading OS from Win 2003 to Win 2003 R2
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> I know that it is supported, that was the first thing I checked this afternoon.
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> I'm more concerned about any hidden gotcha's from doing shutdown on one server (2003), copying data files to 2003R2 and doing the startup.
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> I haven't found any concerns and I think Oracle won't care (I'm hoping it shrugs its virtual shoulders and says "Meh, Windows is Windows, I don't care", but I don't want them to build an R2 server and then find out that it won't work and then have to make them build a 2003 server.
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> Steve
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