Oracle 10.1.0.3 Solaris 9 Mark and Tom: I have several 10.1.0.3 databases with no possibility of upgrading. I wonder if I might prevail on you to review these steps and let me know if this is what you did to upgrade your timezones for a 10.1.0.3 database 1. Downloaded patch 5126270, manually placed the timezdif.csv in $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo and ran utltzuv2.sql 2. After step 1, I do not appear to have affected data, nor do I have Java issues 3. I downloaded patch 4689959 for 10.1.0.4 4. I plan to manually move the timezlrg.dat and timezone.dat files to $ORACLEl_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo Does this sound correct? I've downloaded about a bazillion metalink articles, and I'm still struggling. Thanks for any help! Barb On 1/30/07, Mark Strickland <strickland.mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just realized that on one of my dev/test servers, Oracle was never upgraded from 10.1.0.3 to 10.1.0.5 (egg on face). There is no DST patch for 10.1.0.3 but I compared the old versions of the timezone files between the two patchsets and they are identical so I copied the new timezone files from 10.1.0.5 to 10.1.0.3 and called it good. The test query does return the correct time. I don't like doing spur-of-the-moment upgrades and this particular server and database are expected to be sunsetted sometime this century, so I decided not to quickly upgrade it. I may decide to do that later. So, if you have 10.1.0.3 and can't upgrade to a higher 10gR1 patchset, there appears to be a workaround. If I encounter side-effects, I'll be sure to update the list. Regards, Mark Strickland
