Re: More than 1 version of Oracle on a Machine

It's done all the time. Each version should have its own ORACLE_HOME. Each instance will be defined in the /etc/oratab file and started when your machine boots to multi-user mode. The Net8 listener will be the latest version of the two, but listener.ora will have the ORACLE_HOME of each instance pointing to the proper version of its software. Just make sure you have enough memory. I'm assuming you have enough CPU or you wouldn't even think of asking the question.

My25/c.

"mparish" <mparishNOmpSPAM_at_inlogic.com.invalid> wrote in message news:0d701ae0.a1558ee3_at_usw-ex0107-050.remarq.com...
> I've been asked by our management team whether it is possible to run
> two different version of Oracle (specifically v8.0.5 & v8.1.6) on the
> same box using the same OS (SUN 2.7). My immediate answer was no.
> Other than partitioning
>
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Received on Thu May 18 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT