andkovacs_at_yahoo.com (Andras Kovacs) wrote in message news:<412ebb69.0211040814.1e278d02_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi Harry,
>
> I did this job just yestarday and it is not easy. On Windows 2000 I
> tried to upgrade Oracle 8i to Oracle EE 8. There is a long check list.
> Oracle advises just to uninstall the software and reinstalle the EE
> version.
> It didn't work at all on our two machines. Basically I decided to
> export the entire database and reimport it. Here is what I did:
>
> 1. Export of the original DB.
> 2. Stop all oracle services.
> 3. Clean the registry. Use regedit.exe and search for Oracle key.
> Remove all key that references Oracle.
> 4. Remove ORACLE_SID, LOCAL, ORACLE_HOME etc ... from your settings.
> 5. Remove the old oracle 8i directories
> 6. Reboot the machines.
> 7. Install oracle EE. It will hang when configuring the Listener ...
> Stop the installer and kill the jrew.exe running.
> 8. Configure the listener
> 9. Set ORACLE_SID and LOCAL
> 10. Create the oracle service with oradim
> 11. Create the DB with Create Database
> 12. Import your DB from your export file.
>
>
> There are more detailled articles in this news group on how to
> uninstall oracle.
> For a 20GB database it takes 7 hours all this work.
>
> Good luck, Andras
>
>
>
> Harry <a_at_abc.com> wrote in message news:<5igasuclkij6fq60u528akdalofltdrv8e_at_4ax.com>...
> > Using win 2000 (sp3)
> >
> > Had Oracle 8i installed & need to install the enterprise edition so I
> > stopped the oracle services & uninstalled the whole lot using oracle
> > installer. However when installing the ent edition I could use the
> > same db instance name as used in the standard edition as appaerntly is
> > still exists
> >
> > Windows services still shows this service "OracleServiceDEV" but the
> > whole lot was supposed to be removed - how can I remove this so I can
> > use the same db instance name?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > harry
If you have access to metalink this note might help
Note:124353.1
Michael Tubuo Ngong
Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 08:51:44 CST
