Re: Oracle 7.3.3 & Oracle 8.0.4 on Sun Solaris.. Can they run together?

I've run Oracle 8 and 7 together on AIX and HPUX without problems. I don't think you'll have a problem with Solaris. I tend to create separate UNIX 'owner' accounts and groups - say 'oracle8' and 'dba8' to keep the split pretty complete.

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Vlad N. Sushkov wrote in message <01bd9f04$31da2f30$752d50ce_at_hp2>...
>Hello to everyone!
>
>I am going to install Oracle 8.0.4 Server Enterprise Edition on
>Sun Solaris 2.6. We have already Oracle 7.3.3 running
>on this platform.
>
>As far as I could notice from Oracle Installation Guide for Sun Solaris,
>it is ( theoretically ) possible to have 2 different Oracle releases
>installed at the same machine..
>
>The question is:
>
>some of the configuration files seem to overlap, as
>/var/opt/oratab
>/opt/bin/oraenv
>/opt/bin/dbhome
>
>( Those are common for the two releases ).
>I do not want to crash the production databases developed for Oracle 7.x
>running at the same time..
>
>ARe there any workarounds?
>
>Any hints or comments would be greatly appreciated.
>Thank you
>Vlad
>
Received on Mon Jul 06 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT