Re: upgrade and migration

Well done. Not even a four letter acronym starting with R and and ending with M.

Isn't English a wonderful language? <g>

Daniel Morgan

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:30:00 -0500, Steven Shen <ssshen_at_mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am fresh guy to oracle and have a question about upgrading oracle. I
> >really appreciate if any advice or suggestions. We currently have an
> >oracle 8.1.6 database running on the E3500 solaris 8 system. I would
> >like to upgrade it to 8.1.7. How do I do that, many thanks!
> >
> >Steve
>
> Somehow...
> Now it's my turn: Please hold me, Daniel
>
> 1 Take the booklet out of the CD-case
> 2 Carefully read it
> 3 Carefully read any installation and upgrading documentation
> available on technet
> 4 determine an appropiate moment to do the upgrade
> 5 open the Solaris CD-rom drive, put the CD in it, and close it
> 6 mount the CD and from the CD rom mount point type ./runInstaller
> (be sure you are running this from a X-windows session)
> 7 answer to the prompts (the installer will discover the existing
> database and propose to upgrade it for you)
> 8 remove the CD from the drive
>
> Please keep in mind no members of this group (with the possible
> exception of Thomas Kyte) are being paid to do that little bit of
> reading for you.
> You would better do it yourself.
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 16:42:27 CST