Re: Upgrade to 7.3 - Concerns

From: Dan Townsend <townsend_at_ebmud.com>
Date: 1997/04/18
Message-ID: <3357AEC6.6F14@ebmud.com>#1/1

Greg,
Rushing into this could do you in. We just moved from 7.0.15 on an IBM mainframe to 7.3.2.3 on an SGI Unix server. We had some real problems that needed individual attention, not the least of which was that 7.0.15 created corrupt Export files (maybe 7.0.16 was better). Some of our problems were also related to the disparate character sets (EBCDIC vs. ASCII). Hopefully you are working with compatible Operating Systems. We also had performance problems because of the changes in the init.ora parameters and changes in the details of the 7.3 server environment.

Good luck. In my experience, DBA functions that get rushed have a negative return on investment.

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| Dan Townsend, Supervising Database Architect

| EBMUD Enterprise Object Designer
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Greg Poirier wrote:
>
> I'm forced to do a rush upgrade to 7.3 from 7.0.16. If anyone knows of
> problems please forward to me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg Poirier
Received on Fri Apr 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT