RE: EXT :Oddity with upgrades on Windows

The items in ProfileList have a format which looks like:

        S- followed by some hyphenated groups of numbers.

I looked at the values associated with each one until you find one where the associated ProfileImagePath = c:\Users\<service account name>

The S-<numbers> value is the SID of the service account.

• In HKEY_USERS\<SID>\Environment I added a field called ORACLE_HOME and set its value to the path to the ORACLE_HOME for 12c.
• I set the properties of the 12c listener service to run under this service account with the result that it used the appropriate ORACLE_HOME for 12c.

Hope this helps and is not too confusing.

Peter Schauss

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 3:19 PM
To: oracle-l <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Subject: EXT :Oddity with upgrades on Windows

The scenario is like this: the client is using 64 bit Windows 2012R2, with several 11G databases running from the same 11.2.0.4 home. For testing purposes, the client wants to upgrade just one of the databases to Oracle 12.1.0.2. I noticed that it is not possible to move the listener to the new Oracle home. No matter what I do, the listener being used is always the listener from the 11G home. That prevents me from using DBUA and I have to use catctl.pl, which is a lot more of manual labour. Has anyone solved that problem? Explicit setting of TNS_ADMIN doesn't help.  I am at a loss.