Re: Anybody updated Oracle 7.0 to 7.3

In message <33F0883D.449D_at_sprynet.com> - Narayanan Olagappan <narayan_at_sprynet.com> writes:
:>
:>E.A.J. Moes wrote:
:>>
:>> We need to upgrade from Oracle 7.0.15 to 7.3.
:>> It is likely that I can expect serious problems?
:>> If someone has done such a thing please tell me the problem areas.
:>>
:>> Thanks,
:>>
:>> Evert Moes (e-mail: moese_at_kabelfoon.nl)
:>
:>We have done several upgrades, not from 7.0, but from 7.1.3 -> 7.1.6,
:>7.1.3 -> 7.2.2.3, 7.2.2.4 -> 7.3.2, 7.1.6 -> 7.3.2 and few other
:>combinations. But surprisingly we never faced any serious problem. You
:>may get few minor probelms like loosing grants on sys owned pacakges,
:>etc, which are pretty much easy to fix. Otherwise upgrades breeze
:>through.

Not here !

I tried upgrading from 7.2.2 to 7.3.2.x and at a given point, the upgrade scripts world come up with errors while changing the oracle dictionary tables and views.

That was on a development machine ! I'm scared to run the upgrade on the production machine !!

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