Re: Migrate V7.3.4 to V8.1.6

Is this an important production environment?

Because if so, I would politely suggest to whoever 'gave' you a week to pull this stunt off to go jump in a lake.

I've just spent a very pleasant afternoon helping sort out an upgrade mess using suspiciously similar versions -and it was Oracle itself that had performed the defective upgrade! (Mistakes do happen).

I realise that sounds flippant: it's not supposed to be. These things *ought* to be tested first. But if it truly is a do-or-die situation, read the Oracle-supplied upgrade instructions extremely carefully, and follow them out to the letter. And be prepared for near-death experiences.

Regards
HJR

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"A" <aghrieb_at_businessobjects.com> wrote in message
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> Migrate V7.3.4 to V8.1.6

>

> I've been given a week to research, plan, and migrate a production

 database


> from 7.3.3 to 8.1.6. I do not have a test server to try this out on so I

> have to get it right the first time. Does anyone know of any known

 problems


> migrating in this manner or would like to share some lessons learned. Any

> advanced help would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Adel

>

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