Re: Different versions on W2k

Guten Morgen Flavio :-)

thanks for your help. You are the first person who descriped me this operation detailed.

I hope I will be successful and if not IŽll contact you again:-)

Sabrina

P.S Do you come from Germany??

"FC" <flavio_at_tin.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:BhM9a.19615$zo2.580579_at_news2.tin.it...
>
> Guten Abend Sabrina,
> just a few notes from personal research + well known tricks.
> Install 8.1.7 first and then 9.2.0.
> Of course they must be installed into different Oracle homes.
> I'd rather put each version on a different disk or at least a different
> partition if possible.
> If you are going to run both database versions simultaneously, one
listener
> must be configured on a different port, for instance 1526 instead of the
> standard 1521. Physical memory is another scarce resource, if both
instances
> are running at the same time, you might end up causing memory swaps.
> Configure the instances so that both do not exceed the RAM available.
>
> When you install the 9.2 database, because of certain registry settings,
you
> may end up having the Oracle\admin directory of the second database merged
> with the Oracle\admin of 8.1.7, something that I didn't like the first
time
> I ran through this process. Since this path is prompted at some
preliminary
> stage, watch out for the message coming from the database configuration
> wizard and change it according to your needs.
>
>
> I have exactly the same configuration on my machine and they work
perfectly
> together.
> I've also set up individual "environments" (Windows users) for each DBA
user
> such that, when I log on, the corresponding Oracle Home becomes the
default
> Oracle Home, which makes my life easier as I do not have to worry about
> command execution path leading to the wrong command version.
>
> Anyway, you can start reading some docs at http://tahiti.oracle.com,
> especially Windows specific documentation for 9.2 and release notes from
the
> installation CDs.
>
> Tschuess,
> Flavio
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 07 2003 - 03:17:09 CST