Re: How to upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 EE on Windows NT?

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:03:01 +0800, Dino Hsu <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:34:36 +0100, Sybrand Bakker
><postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:57:39 +0800, Dino Hsu <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Dear all,
>>>
>>>I have downloaded 8.1.7 EE for Windows NT/2K from OTN, but the
>>>document (especially the Migration Guide) seems to be on a separate
>>>disk. I wonder how to upgrade Oracle 8.0.5 with its databases to
>>>Oracle 8.1.7, I need a decriptive procedure to do it, and I don't need
>>>to keep the 8.0.5. Thanks in advanc.e
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Dino
>>
>>
>>*All* Manuals are online at http://technet.oracle.com
>>I also downloaded Oracle from OTN and in my case I definitely do have
>>the migration document.
>>Evidently, abstracting the migration procedure (which is of course *an
>>upgrade only*) is beyond the scope of this newsgroup.
>>
>>Hth,
>>
>>Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
>Sybrand,
>
>I am sorry if did go off-scope of this news group.
>However, are you really sure that OTN have all manuals? I've just had
>Migration Guide sent to me from Oracle support people, they told me we
>can only find a limited set of instructions at OTN, not all manuals.
>The reason I need the Guide is that I realized later that the
>migration process is not what we can 'plug and play', but we have to
>manually do something about the parameters and configurations. Without
>the Guide, it is very unlikely that we can make it.
>
>Regards,
>Dino

Before replying I verified the existence of this manual at OTN and it's there.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Mon Mar 05 2001 - 23:55:15 CST