Re: FW: Manual UPgrade question

  • From: David Ramírez Reyes <dramirezr@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Hemant-K.Chitale@xxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 09:08:57 -0500

Didn't remember that detail of ORDER BY, that caused me lots of headaches
on the first db we migrated.

David Ramírez Reyes
MES DBA Technical Leader



On 4 July 2014 01:06, Chitale, Hemant K <Hemant-K.Chitale@xxxxxx> wrote:

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> There's a 32MB file of a presentation "Upgrade and Migrate to Oracle
> Database 11g" by "Roy Swonger & Mike Dietrich".
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> Search for it on oracle's site (or a google search).
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> Also remember that behaviour of Group By changes (results are NOT ordered
> as you might have expected / seen them in 9i - so an ORDER BY is necessary
> if you expected sorted results),  many optimizer changes as well.  Changes
> to dbms_stats are also significant.
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>
> Hemant K Chitale
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> *From:* Chitale, Hemant K
> *Sent:* Friday, July 04, 2014 2:02 PM
> *To:* 'RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> *Cc:* ORACLE-L
> *Subject:* RE: Manual UPgrade question
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> Specifically responding to :
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> According to documentation, the datafiles are not changed. The upgrade
> involves recompilation of binaries and such.
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> Or does the upgrade alter the contents of the sys tablespace?
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> The Upgrade **DOES** update the system tablespace (lots and lots of
> changes !).  It would update the UNDO Tablespace. It also needs a new
> SYSAUX tablespace. Datafile headers need to be updated when the database is
> OPENed.
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> The word size conversion requires additional scripts --- utlirp.sql and
> utlrp.sql and a separate script for Java objects.
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> There are a number of support notes on word size conversion --- 62290.1,
> 548978.1, 341880.1 are three that I have saved.
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> Hemant K Chitale
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [
> mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] *On
> Behalf Of *Storey, Robert (DCSO)
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:08 PM
> *To:* Oracle L
> *Subject:* Manual UPgrade question
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> So working on a manual upgrade of 9iR2 to 11gR2.  Changing hardware and
> word size.  Import/Export is not an option, DBUA is not an option, nor is
> transportable tablespaces.  Manual is all I have left short of buying
> migration software such as Shareplex or Goldengate.
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> The manual upgrade appears straight forward.  My question is for after the
> upgrade.
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> So I have a new server that will be my production server.  I'll do my
> testing on it.  So, assuming the manual upgrade is successfully wrung out
> and tested and I'm ready to do the live upgrade.
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> I'm curious if , now that I have the upgraded DB on the production server
> could I just recopy over new versions of the datafiles, controlfiles, redo
> Logs(?) and restart the upgraded database without having to run through the
> upgrade again.
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> According to documentation, the datafiles are not changed. The upgrade
> involves recompilation of binaries and such.
>
>
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> Or does the upgrade alter the contents of the sys tablespace?
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> Thanks
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