Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!skynet.be!newspost001!tjb!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Matthias Hoys" From: "Matthias Hoys" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <1126535303.203486.235200@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4326b58e$0$32202$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net> <1126617523.933945.278940@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading 10.1.0.4 (on Solaris SPARC 64-bit) to 10.2 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:13:32 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4328846b$0$30609$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: 909e7cb8.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1126728811 news.skynet.be 30609 81.244.13.166:1090 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:251525 "hpuxrac" wrote in message news:1126617523.933945.278940@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Yes Umberto the approach you noted could be useable by some people in > some environments. > > However, if something unusual happens you have introduced a dependency > between the procedures for falling back the database conversion that > includes a recovery of the un-installed software. > > For many people, that kind of dependency might not be acceptable. > > Additionally, if you have more than one database instance on a unix > host ( not unusual at all ) your scenario implies that you need to > convert all of them at the same time. This again might not be > acceptable to some people. > > If you have separate oracle homes ( more space needs of course ) these > complications can be minimized. > Correct, more space is needed, but we are talking about some gigabytes here. I would install the new software in parallel on the server in another Oracle home.