Re: upgrading oracle through copying files

You can not upgrade Oracle by copying files. But even if you could it would be an extraordinarily foolish thing to attempt.

Oracle has, in great detail, published the steps for upgrading an instance on documentation available on the Oracle CD and on its websites. To attempt to do anything without RTFM is just plain masochistic if not suicidal.

Read the directions and follow them ... or please please please ... do not come here and ask us to bail you out.

And if what you find does not include running CATPROC and CATALOG you aren't reading the right thing.

Daniel Morgan

Sharkie wrote:

> I have two Oracle 8i servers running on two Sun Sparc Solaris boxes.
> One is 8.1.6 the other one 8.1.7
> 8.1.6 is currently not in use by anyone, and I'd like to upgrade it
> to 8.1.7. Can I do this upgrade by copying certain files over from
> the 8.1.7 box? It seems doable, but since I've never done it this way,
> and this box will be used in production environment, I want to be sure,
> there are no hidden problems with this solution.
>
> The two boxes are networked together, so communication is no problem.
Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 12:05:25 CST