Hi, Nigel, we installed Oracle 8.0.5 on NT in the very beginning and when NT
sp4 was out. We patched it and everything was OK. The database has been
running fine. Upgrade to sp4 has both domestic version and international
version for encryption. Domestic version is 128bit. Overseas version is
40bit?. I don't know if you choose the domestic version. Even though it
should work well. I got two machines. Both have Oracle. But one uses
domestic version, the other uses foreign version. We never have any
problem. What's more, on each machine we have more than two instances.
You should do a test on another machine. Another way is to do a cold backup
and get rid of the old oracle completely and then apply sp4 and reinstall
oracle 8.0.5 and then shut down oracle and copy back all data files to
replace the new ones and then point your initsid.ora to the original ones.
I believe it will work. But I don't believe you ever need this much work.
Nigel Ramsay <nigel.ramsay_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:7fj3is$n21$1_at_reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net...
> Hi everyone,
>
> We were running Oracle 8.0.4 on Windows NT SP3, and everything was fine.
We
> decided to upgrade to SP4 for Y2K fixes, etc. Unfortunately, after the
> upgrade, the "Oracle TNSListener80" service failed to start. The Oracle
guys
> suggested we upgrade to Oracle 8.0.5, which we then did. This did not
appear
> to make any difference.
>
> We have now reversed out, back to SP3. Oracle works fine now.
>
> But, we still need to upgrade to SP4 sometime. Does anyone have any
> suggestions? Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nigel
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Nigel Ramsay nigel.ramsay_at_synergy-int.co.nz (wk)
> Consultant nigel.ramsay_at_bigfoot.com (hm)
> Synergy International Ltd
> New Zealand 04 499 3000 (wk)
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 20 1999 - 20:02:01 CDT
