Pete writes: >>From customers I've spoken to, the main reason people are looking at >> upgrade rather than a clean installation is purely and simply because they >> want to keep the history that is currently contained in their repository. >> Of course, a clean installation does give you the chance to get rid of a >> lot of old baggage that you may no longer need, but in general this is more >> of a business decision than a technical one really. The history is definitely why I'm upgrading -- I keep three years worth. But I only have a handful of targets; my repository DB is only 7GB. That's why my current plan is to do a 2-system upgrade. I have notes that the repo data will get "shuffled" over from the Grid to the Cloud a little at a time, but I need to research that more. But I'm still trying to get the test upgraded from 10gR3 to 10gR5 -- ORA-4031s galore! And my shared pool was >512MB! But that's another story... :) Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l