Re: Can I upgrade from one version of Oracle to another without uninstalling?

First of all, your right about 8i, this is not possible. I mistakingly thought about 8. I am preparing a migration to 8.0.6 at the moment, so my mind was on that.
So you won the pissing contest.

> First of all I'll shout any damned time I feel like someone is giving
> WRONG advice.

OK calm down.
Some day you will give a wrong advice, I will be there ;-)

> This is stupid, utterly stupid. Irregardless if it
> actually works in 8.0.x (which I doubt), it's a bad practice.
It works, I tried it (you clearly didn't). I did mention this wasn't a very nice solution. I showed you this is documented in the manual.

> > > Oracle has never, repeat NEVER supported the idea of installing
> > > a version over an existing version in the same ORACLE_HOME.
So this is bullshit, repeat BULLSHIT.

> I'd personally boot any DBA who wanted to
> do so out the door.

Shiver.
Looking at the way you communicate I would be surprised if you were in the possition to boot anyone.

Have a nice day,
Rob Received on Thu Jan 18 2001 - 13:16:17 CST