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Re: Experience with 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 migration?

From: Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:34:35 -0600
Message-ID: <3BD6ED9B.C6C94437@indra.com>


Brek Noice wrote:
>
> I'm looking for anyone who can provide information about thier
> successes, failures, and overall issues with a migration from Oracle
> 8.0.5 to Oracle 8.1.7. My company is looking to do this within the
> next week or so, and we need all the advice we can get. We are also
> going to try to change our OS from Windows NT to W2K. Has anyone had
> any issues with Oracle and W2K? Any information that you can provide
> about your experiences is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brek Noice
> Support/Maintenance Programmer
> Harman Management Corporation
> Salt Lake City, Utah

I think you are biting off too much at once. IME, an OS and RDBMS upgrade at the same time is a recipe for a disaster. My suggestion is to to the RDBMS upgrade first and make sure all is well before attempting to do the OS upgrade.

-- 
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Wed Oct 24 2001 - 11:34:35 CDT

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