Re: Upgrading oracle 8i to 10g

  • From: Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:23:28 +0800

One idiosyncracy that the docs note is that 10g upgrades are only
allowed from a compatible setting of 9.2 - this doesn't proclude going
from 8i =3D> 10, it just means you have a weird compatible setting
temporarily.

hth
connor

On 6/3/05, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What version of 8i?
> If you make sure you are on 8.1.7.4 <http://8.1.7.4> then you can upgrade
> directly using the database upgrade assistant, which on 10g is actually
> really rather good. If you aren't you need to upgrade to 8174 first.
>=20
> If you wish to do a manual upgrade I believe that the migration guide has=
 a
> step by step - certainly the 10g patchsets have such step by step
> instructions.
>=20
> As always make sure you do this in test to begin with.
>=20
>=20

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Connor McDonald
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