Re: Anybody updated Oracle 7.0 to 7.3

Shafik A. Mahomad wrote:
>
> 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 !!
>
> ..Shafik.Mahomad.......................................................
> ....Deliriously.happy.with.OS/2!!......................................
> ......smahomad_at_mail.telepac.pt........................Lisbon, Portugal.

The problem I ran into while upgrading was 'system tablespace running out of space'. Other than that I haven't faced any problem. If you check the log you may find the error to be simple enough to fix. Received on Wed Aug 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT