Re: Upgrade DB with no downtime

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 06:03:46 -0700

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 05:02, Ivan Chow wrote:
> The database needs to be available in read-write mode when we do the upgrade 
> from 8i to 9i or 9i to 10G. Hardware is not an issue as long as we can 
> achieve zero downtime during the upgrade. Not sure how we can achieve that. 
> Anyone has any experience or suggestions?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Ivan
> 

When you consider that the database being migrated must be in
'startup migrate' mode, and that *many* changes will be made
to the data dictionary, it would not seem possible to do
what you are asking.

Jared


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