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 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l