Path: news.netfront.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: gazzag Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: system update Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3139c305-5f67-44b1-862f-88f56adf1cb1@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.195.187.198 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224673030 1432 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2008 10:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.195.187.198; posting-account=XNB8mAgAAACJCSJ3htUgwEp6l3Q9aDMr User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.netfront.net comp.databases.oracle.server:189342 On 21 Oct, 23:09, "Mr. Chow Wing Siu" wrote: Comments embedded. > If it's linux, why not install the operating system and database > onto a virtual machine for testing? =A0It costs nothing. > > By the way, you also need to practise update glibc library and > downgrade it (during when the operating crashes). > > Either you can or cannot do it. =A0Please formally and officially > seek your boss's approval before doing anything into production system. This is definitely the salient point. I would want an e-mail (at least) from my boss agreeing that, due to a lack of a test environment, he/she is happy for an untested system-wide change to be deployed straight into the production environment. Of course, if I was your boss, I would then require a similar assurance from my boss and so on and so fifth :) > > -- > Johnson Chow HTH -g