Re: Oracle Upgrade 9.0 to 9.2

<sybrandb_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "John Wood" <jwood_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I am running Oracle 9.0.1.4 on Window 2000 platform. I plan to upgrade
the
> > Oracle to 9.2.
> > I was told that in order to have clean upgrade, it is better to do a
full
> > export. Then delete the datafile in the older version, run the upgrade,
> > create the needed tablespace, then do the import.
> >
> > This way we will not see any odd problem.
> >
> > Please advise if this is true.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jw.
>
> The best advise you can get is not from useless hearsay like the one
> you got, but by reading the upgrade manual.
>
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA

It seems that you either never performed an upgrade of a real database, or have been *very* lucky not to encounter any problems during or after the upgrade...

Regards,
Goran Dokmanovic
Senior Database Administrator
VIPNet d.o.o
Zagreb, Croatia Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 05:16:02 CST