Re: Minimizing downtime for 9i to 10g upgrade

Chuck wrote:
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> DA Morgan wrote:
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> > I am slightly embarrassed to say this but I don't know since I
> > haven't seen 9.2.0.6 in about 5 years. It might be that it is and
> > it might be that this was handled in 9.2.0.8 so check the docs.
>
> Hey I'm embarassed to be supporting versions that are so old! But a lot
> of times the version of the application dictates the version of the
> database, and other times the business is never willing to take down
> time to perform upgrades. In this case it's been a little of both.

We've done just that exercise recently on a largish (4tb) but low volume database. Used a standard backup plus archive recoveru to get a second copy of the 9i db, then threw a trigger on every table which created a queue of outstanding transactions whilst upgrading the copy to 10g.

then applied the transaction queue to the 10g database until "switch over"...the original 9i database becomes a trivial failback database.

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