Re: Upgrade dependent on database history ?

I haven't noticed anything like you describe. So I'm unsure what you could be facing. However, if your 3rd party app wants you to introduce one extra step to upgrade, why not do it? It doesn't take that long to go 8.0.4->8.0.6->8.1.7 as it does to go 8.0.4->8.1.7. Ok...it takes twice as long. But twice of "not that mutch time" isn't that long either. And it keeps your 3rd party vendor happy should you need them to support the product. It's surely better to get the 3rd party vendor to get a better understanding of what went wrong on how to fix it, but in the end, it may be less time on your part just to do it the way that they want.

HTH,
Brian

Gerold Krommer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> as I mentioned in another Oracle newsgroup, I'm embarking on a weekend that
> (amongst others) includes an Oracle 8.0.4 to 8.1.7.4 upgrade (on HPUX).
>
> The database is part of a DMS system containing 70 million documents. The
> DMS vendor has only certified an upgrade procedure that goes from 8.0.6 to
> 8.1.7.4 thus requiring us to do an 8.0.4 to 8.0.6 upgrade beforehand,
> something that I feel is an unneccessary waste of time.
>
> The vendors support group has told us that they have seen (sometimes)
> problems going from 8.0.4 to 8.1.7.4 with databases that were migrated from
> V7 databases. Something along the lines of 'missing columns or tables'.
> Those problems were not seen if they went V7-8.0.4-8.0.6-8.1.7 as opposed to
> V7-8.04-8.1.7.
>
> Does anyone know about such troubles ? Could it be that different
> *supported* upgrade paths yield logically different databases ?
> I do not believe I will run into this since the database was exported from a
> V7 system and imported to the 8.0.4 but still I would like to
> be 'armed' with know-how.
>
> Thanks for sharing,
>
> /Gerold
 

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