What does the upgrade documentation say? I know it says something because I
just did an upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7.0 to 8.1.7.4 and came across the
instructions about this. I moved over it because it was not relevant to
what I was doing.
Jim
"Dominica Leung" <dominica_l_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:5f8af180.0207261428.268a0c22_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I am slightly worry about my way of upgrade.
> Would like to double check.
>
> Source: 8.0.6 32 bits on solaris 2.6 (32 bits) platform
> Target: 8.1.7.3 64 bits on solaris 2.8 (64 bits OS)
>
> I am thinking about the following:
>
> 1) shutdown oracle
> 2) export db
> 3) also cold backup db
> 4) startup oracle, and run upgrade to 8.1.7. 32 bits on
> solaris 2.6 32 bits.
> 5) pre-install solaris 2.8 (64 bits) on another new machine
> 6) install oracle 8.1.7. 64 bits software on that new machine.
> 7) shutdown source db
> 8) copy all the dbf file to the new machine
> 9) ??? this is the part, I want to make sure.
> I could copy the 8.1.7 32 bits dbf file to the new
> machine, I would like to make sure for the 8.1.7.2 64 bits
> server could read the 32 bits dbf datafiles.
> 10) run @utlirp.sql to recompile the packages in the oracle
> server in 64 bits.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Dominica
Received on Sat Jul 27 2002 - 15:02:58 CDT
