Hi All, I have to upgrade an instance from 9.2.0.1 to 9.2.0.6. Existing ORACLE_HOME is /u01/oracle/product/9201/ Now i want a new oracle_home for 9206 binaries. say new ORACLE_HOME = /u01/oracle/product/9206/ I am not very much sure about how to do it and one of my peer suggested to : 1) Install 9201 binaries alone in new oracle_home 2) shutdown the existing instance 3) copy init.ora & other files in dbs directory (of existing oracle_home) to new oracle_home 4) change the oracle_home in oratab to new one 5) change the ENV variables to point to new oracle_home 6) startup the instance in "startup migrate" mode 7) run catpatch.sql & utlrp.sql 8) shutdown/start Is this the right procedure ? Hope someone has already done such work ! Suggestions are welcome. Regards, Prem -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l