Re: Run V6/V7 Oracle concurrently on VMS

> >>The Oracle documentation suggests the feasibility of running V6/V7
> >>concurrently on a system. Oracle software support says yes and then points
> >>me to a section in the documentation that discusses parallel
> >>instances/Db's. Is there documentation that discusses the
> >>feasibility/advisability/practicality of running V6/V7 concurrently on VMS?
> >>Thanks in advance ...
> >>
 

> - due to the new features of ORACLE7, you tend to develop separate
> administration procedures for the two versions (i.e. V6 - GRANT
> CONNECT, V7 - CREATE USER)
> - You can only 'INSTALL' one set of utility programs (FORMS, etc.),
> because they have the same image name. Install the utilities for
> the version that has the most users. You won't have this problem
> with the ORACLE image because the image identifier is generally the
> version number.
 

> I say, go for it. You need to get into ORACLE7.

Thanks for the several responses - we do indeed need to go to V7, just a matter of whether I can do it now concurrently with V6 (for a project that requires V7) or wait until the next semester and go with 7 exclusively. I've had enough people tell me that it is possible/safe to know that that is true, but I don't have any pointers to documentation that discusses things like memory conflicts, system-wide logicals, and installed images (which got mentioned here). Guess I'll wing it.

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