Re: upgrade 8.1.5 to 8.1.6

If this is the usual NT install a few remarks apply: - The most rigorous procedure to avoid any problems is to install 8.1.6 in a different Oracle_HOME. This will consume a lot of disk space, but it will work.
- If your database was created using the install procedure (so you have an instance called ORCL) and you are installing in the same Oracle home, avoid creating a starter database during the 8.1.6 install. I would guess though 'database 8.1.6' refers to the software only.

Usually also the Installation and User Guide (commonly called IUG) is quite rigorous about describing *exactly* what happens.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Hein van Vroonhoven" <Hein.vanVroonhoven_at_akzonobel.com> wrote in message news:B1D5796F39B9D311908C00805F59305C040A36AF_at_news.ahm-nl.akzonobel.nl...
> hi all,
>
> when I want to upgrade my Oracle 8i version 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 is the database
> then upgraded or removed and newly created ?
> When I follow the install procedure it says "upgrade". When I continue, it
> gives at a certain point all de-installations and installations. At
> de-installations I see database 8.1.5 and at installations I see database
> 8.1.6.
> Who can give me the clues, because I don't want to lose my current
 database
> instance.
>
> TIA
>
> Hein van Vroonhoven
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT