Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:46852 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!feeder.qis.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!not-for-mail From: "alex shenfield" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle 804 Migration Problem Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:17:34 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Message-ID: <7fnp3b$kdf$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> References: <01be8bda$baf06280$a446ea9e@P014299.logica.co.uk> X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 924805035 20911 62.136.192.237 (22 Apr 1999 18:17:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 1999 18:17:15 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Lines: 31 Hi, I have performed this upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0.4.3 on Solaris with not problems. The route taken was to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0.4 with the migration tool. Once this is apply the patch 10.10 Alex James wrote in message <01be8bda$baf06280$a446ea9e@P014299.logica.co.uk>... >Hi All, > I've run up against a rather awkward problem regarding the Oracle 8 >migration utility. Basically I've had to install Patch 80430 on top of our >Oracle 804 installation, running on Solaris 2.6. > > This presents certain problems for the migration tool, in that we can no >longer safely use it according to the patch installation notes. This is >quite a problem as we need this patch immediately, but we also have an >ongoing program of upgrading 7.x databases to 8. > > Oracle support say that there are no plans for a migration utility patch, >and that the only work-around is to have two Oracle 8 installations: one >with patch 80430, and one without. Accordingly, I'm going to have to move >the current (patched)Oracle8 ORACLE_HOME to 8.0.4.3, and install a baseline >Oracle 8.0.4 so that we can use the migration utility. Migrated databases >will then have to be moved to the 8.0.4.3 installation! > >So my question is this: Is there an easier way of doing this, aside from >exp/imp? > >Thanks in advance. >James