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"Slava Pechenin" <slava_at_pechenin.ru> wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> Preface: It happened that we bought a NT4 Oracle based product. Our vendor
> installed Oracle server software and the product. They also gave us some
CDs
> and of course left us one day with hard-to-use email based support...
>
> Now there is a task of making a stand-by backup server. I installed NT4,
> SP6a, Oracle 8.0.4
> The problem is with Oracle patch 8.0.4.4.0
>
> The instructions with the patch say that the procedure to apply it is the
> following:
> 1) stop Oracle database services
> 2) run patch\setup.exe
> 3) apply server manager sql scripts (catalog.sql, catproc.sql, catexp.sql,
> catrep.sql)
>
> Hmmm, how to do the step N 3?
> Usually SQL scripts are executed under some user account - am I to
configure
> user account before execute the scripts?
>
> Thank you
>
The other posters have answered the how-to.
But if in 2003 (or 2002, 2001 come to that) your company bought a product
which depends on Oracle 8.0.4. and NT4, I suspect your company was sold a
lemon.
Regards,
Paul
Received on Thu Jan 09 2003 - 14:06:37 CST