learner schreef:
> On Feb 26, 4:31 pm, "joel garry" <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 7:22 am, "learner" <Zabal..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey All experts,
>>> I am a Sun System admin and recently I was assigned a task to upgrade
>>> an Oracle 8.1.7.4 DB to Oracle 10g. We have a DBA and she will be
>>> doing most of the Import/Export stuff which I am not aware of exactly.
>>> My questions are that as a System What Do I have to in order to
>>> Install OAS and Oracle DB on Sun Solaris 10 servers?
>>> We have a two tier environment and the OAS will be installed on a Sun
>>> V490 server and it will be talking to Oracle DB sitting on an E2900?
>>> How do I make these two pieces of software talk to each other from
>>> Oracle perspective?
>>> Can some one help me with the installation of both OAS and Oracle DB?
>>> Thanks a million to all.
>> The worst thing a DBA can do is lose data. The worst screwups I have
>> personally seen came from DBA's unfamiliar with unix, working on unix.
>>
>> That said, the later versions 10 of both the db and and AS are much
>> less fragile than their forebears. The AS is still the less forgiving
>> component, however. What you need to do is go over the installation
>> manuals in painful detail, until you understand everything, and be
>> sure the DBA does the same thing. Then try it on a test system. Also
>> see metalink for additional advice on AS, there may be some examples
>> there. AS administration is quite different than DB administration.
>>
>> Do you know how the clients are going to be getting information about
>> the network? There are a number of ways to do it, I've seen some
>> things able to use Easy Connect, it's so simple it can be confusing
>> (especially mixing Oracle versions in dll hell). Is everything going
>> through AS or are some 3rd party apps going around it to the db?
>>
>> jg
>> --
>> @home.com is bogus.http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/telephone.html
>
> hey there,
> First of all thanks for the help.
> As I have mentioned earlier that the DBA is not aware of Unix at all.
> She says that she will use some oracle tools to export the data to the
> new data center.
> She wants me to install Oracle 8 on to these systems first and than
> she will remotely perform the upgrade of the data from Oracle 8.1.7.4
> to Oracle 10g release 2.
> Once the manual upgrade of the data is done than I beleive I have to
> install Oracle 10 g release 2 software to the DB servers and than just
> mount the LUNS or copy the data over to the db servers.
> There are a lot of other thrid party software and tools that will be
> extracting data from these db servers.
> Most of these server are within the same subnet, but the users
> accessing data are ofcourse remote users.
> We are not using any other third company to help us in this quest as
> the business wants the employees to keep the knowledge and grow their
> experience.
> Let me know if the idea that the DBA has conveyed me sounds good or
> not.
> thanks
>
I'd go look for another dba - bet she wants you to install the
10G software, too.
That will detect the 8i instance, and offer to upgrade that
instance to 10G - should she press the OK button, or do you?
--
Regards,
Frank van Bortel
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Received on Tue Feb 27 2007 - 12:34:53 CST
