From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Jun 6 05:29:57 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j56ATv4P016130 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:29:57 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j56ATrNi016122 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:29:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 582491BB826; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:25:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19349-01; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:25:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id CC5121BB862; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:25:34 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=p7cZb7cjzAc2HBsNOe6VS+ZHO+XfkDcxJm60BvL0543pYJoEIMNq+4XYdtKJkwecghJ6AIRdgp/YY19NmGiI8zivPu1s7ay8en+Ow6qfQZVGdmMi0ads2jVQdsnH06Q97u0An2yC8+V7+UIB/7zFzKCVVMfJpyt6g//p5ByuGwI= Message-ID: <5e30486205060602235f3bdeca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:23:28 +0800 From: Connor McDonald To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Upgrading oracle 8i to 10g In-Reply-To: <7765c89705060308242af56cf7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050602055610.299083384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> <7765c89705060308242af56cf7@mail.gmail.com> X-archive-position: 20681 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mcdonald.connor@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mcdonald.connor@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP autolearn=no version=2.63 One idiosyncracy that the docs note is that 10g upgrades are only allowed from a compatible setting of 9.2 - this doesn't proclude going from 8i =3D> 10, it just means you have a weird compatible setting temporarily. hth connor On 6/3/05, Niall Litchfield wrote: > What version of 8i? > If you make sure you are on 8.1.7.4 then you can upgrade > directly using the database upgrade assistant, which on 10g is actually > really rather good. If you aren't you need to upgrade to 8174 first. >=20 > If you wish to do a manual upgrade I believe that the migration guide has= a > step by step - certainly the 10g patchsets have such step by step > instructions. >=20 > As always make sure you do this in test to begin with. >=20 >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@yahoo.com web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l