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

Dino,

Yes, the Migration Guide exists on Technet. You can find it at http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/a86632/toc.htm for your perusal.

Enjoy!
Brian

Dino Hsu 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
 

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