"Upgrade the instances first" ? What is that ? >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Fox >>>Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:10 AM >>>To: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) >>>Cc: Jared Still; davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx; >>>MFontana@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>Subject: RE: ZERO Database Downtime??? >>> >>>Why wouldn't you upgrade all instances to the latest version >>>first, then apply the database upgrade after all instances are up? >>> >>>This would allow for no database downtime. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l