Re: Can I upgrade from one version of Oracle to another without uninstalling?

First of all I'll shout any damned time I feel like someone is giving WRONG advice. This is stupid, utterly stupid. Irregardless if it actually works in 8.0.x (which I doubt), it's a bad practice. Second, there is NO mention of installing Oracle8 over an Oracle7 Oracle home in the Oracle8i documentation (Oracle# : A68694-01) (I don't have the 8 docs handy.) In chapter 5 (chapter 7 in this doc has nothing to do with this topic) it states, quite clearly:

What To Do With Previous Oracle Database Releases

If you already have Oracle7, and/or Oracle8 databases on your computer and want to install release 8.1.5, the following options are available to you.

It is not possible to install release 8.1.5 products into an existing Oracle home created using the pre-8.1.5 Oracle Installer.

It would be a BAD practice to try to overwrite an existing Oracle_home (that was not de-installed). I'd personally boot any DBA who wanted to do so out the door. Now if you REMOVE the old ORACLE_HOME and then reinstall, thats a different story.

Robert

In article <946dou$nv9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   bitbucket0611_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
> > NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > Oracle has never, repeat NEVER supported the idea of installing
> > a version over an existing version in the same ORACLE_HOME. NEVER
> > DO THIS, EVER EVER.
> >
>
> Don't shout at me and RTFM !!!!!!!!!!
> If you think I'm wrong no problem, but please reply in a calm and
> friendly manner.
>
> From Oracle8 Enterprise Edition Getting Started
> Release 8.0.4 for Windows NT A55928-01
> Chapter 7
> Available at technet.oracle.com
>
> Install Oracle7 and Oracle8 databases in the same Oracle home
 directory
> and have both Oracle7 and Net8 clients connecting to Oracle7 and
> Oracle8 databases. The figure below gives an example of this network
> configuration:
>
> You can install different versions of Oracle databases in the same
> Oracle home provided they have different first or second-digit
> versions. For example, you can have release 7.2.x, 7.3.x, and 8.0.x
> databases in the same Oracle home. You cannot install multiple third-
> digit releases of the same products. For example, you cannot install
> release 7.3.2 and release 7.3.3, or release 8.0.3 and release 8.0.4
> versions of the same Oracle databases in the same Oracle home; one
> installation overwrites the other.
>
> Ensure that each database instance has a unique SID. In particular, be
> careful that you do not use the default SID ORCL for subsequent
> installations if you already have a starter database with the SID ORCL
> installed. If you do so, the services of the later installation
> overwrite the services of the earlier installation.
>
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