Re: Oracle and DST changes

Oracle 10.1.0.3        Solaris 9


Mark and Tom:

I have several 10.1.0.3 databases with no possibility of upgrading.

I wonder if I might prevail on you to review these steps and let me know if
this is what you did to upgrade your timezones for a 10.1.0.3 database



  1. Downloaded patch 5126270, manually placed the timezdif.csv in
  $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo and ran utltzuv2.sql
  2. After step 1, I do not appear to have affected data, nor do I have
  Java issues
  3. I downloaded patch 4689959 for 10.1.0.4
  4. I plan to manually move the timezlrg.dat and timezone.dat files to
  $ORACLEl_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo



Does this sound correct?

I've downloaded about a bazillion metalink articles, and I'm still
struggling.

Thanks for any help!

Barb




On 1/30/07, Mark Strickland <strickland.mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I just realized that on one of my dev/test servers, Oracle was never
upgraded from 10.1.0.3 to 10.1.0.5 (egg on face).  There is no DST patch
for 10.1.0.3 but I compared the old versions of the timezone files between
the two patchsets and they are identical so I copied the new timezone files
from 10.1.0.5 to 10.1.0.3 and called it good.  The test query does return
the correct time.  I don't like doing spur-of-the-moment upgrades and this
particular server and database are expected to be sunsetted sometime this
century, so I decided not to quickly upgrade it.  I may decide to do that
later.

So, if you have 10.1.0.3 and can't upgrade to a higher 10gR1 patchset,
there appears to be a workaround.  If I encounter side-effects, I'll be sure
to update the list.

Regards,
Mark Strickland

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