Re: V7.0 -> V7.1 any problems?

zhouf_at_rastro.Colorado.EDU (ZHOU FENGQUING) writes:

>I have a bad week to try upgrade from 7.0.16 to 7.1.4
>The problem is: connecttion from clients to server will get
>ORA-12500 error. The server is on Solaris 2.3 of course, but my clients
>may be Windows, OS/2 and Mac.
 

>Now my databse system is alomst useless since no client can connect
>to the server. I call ORACLE support everyday, but I get no call back.

One does have to be very careful when upgrading from v7.0 to v7.1, because not like v7.0, SQL*Net v2 for v7.1 (v7.1.3 and v7.1.4) does not talk to v6 environment very well.

Check the SQL*Net version on the client side to see whether they need to be upgraded to v7 as well.

Peng Hu
Database Consultant

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