Re: Problem migrating 7.2.3 to 7.3.3

From: Uwe Schneider <pi_at_nospam.richard-schneider.de>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:02:13 +0100
Message-ID: <363E0FC5.B573EA63@nospam.richard-schneider.de>

Horace Chow wrote:
>
> Uwe,
>
> It is better to set the 'compatibility' to the same level of your
> software (i.e. 7.3.3).
>
> Try to shutdown abort the database first (i.e. svrmgrl> shutdown
> abort)
>
> I think there may have an 'rc' command which try to startup the
> database when rebooting the system. Go and check your 'oratab' file
> and make sure that the last parameter is 'N'
>
> e.g.
>
> sid:/oracle/home:N
>
> Check it to see whether it help you or not.
>
> Horace

Hi,
in the meantime we have won: Only rebuilding the control files really helped. Somethin in them must have been corrupt.

BTW: Have you known that byte # 4101 in each data file is the datafile number under Oracle 7? :-) Try "cmp -l <file1> <file2> | less".

Uwe

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Linux - OS al dente! Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 14:02:13 CST