Re: Oracle 11 install wants to use Oracle 10 oraInventory
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wts@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:07:38 -0700
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Wayne Smith <wts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe I missed something, but normally one machine has one oracle inventory
> for all installed stuff. Let it use your current oraInventory and when you
> are done with 10g, uninstall it, causing oraInventory to be cleaned up.
>
>
Not always. There are DBA's (me included) that keep a separate oraInventory
for each ORACLE_HOME.
Having been burned by inventory issues once, I try to not let it happen
again.
At least if an inventory gets corrupted, it does not affect other databases
on the server.
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
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