dwhite9999_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I need to upgrade several sites to oracle 7.3.4 for Y2k readiness. Can
> someone tell me if there are any gotchas going from 7.3.3 to 7.3.4? Any
> help would be appreciated. This is on an NT platform running SP5.
> Thanks,
>
> Daryl White
> Software Engineer
> Imaging Automation, Inc.
>
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> Before you buy.
I did an upgrade once and had a few problems. My main problem was that I
was working on a machine that had both 7.3.3 and 7.3.4 installed and both
versions had an active instance. My task, therefore was to upgrade the
7.3.3 instance without breaking the 7.3.4. I tried to run orainst to do
this but it barfed big time because it didn't understand why I wanted to
upgrade to 7.3.4 when I already had that installed. I was, however, able to
figure out from the log file that it generated that what I really needed to
do, ultimately was just update the data dictionary of the 7.3.3 instance so
that I could mount/open it as 7.3.4. I was finally able to do this by
manually running several scripts in the ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory
and then making sure that all of the stuff in root.sh was taken care of. I
had a few nervous moments while I was doing all of this, but ultimately it
worked out fine and I was up in operation. The whole process took me a
couple hours - most of which was spent in figure out what steps I needed to
take for the upgrade.
Received on Mon Dec 06 1999 - 10:12:08 CST
