Re: Simple Upgrade questions

Rick Denoire wrote:

>Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
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>>I am so stunned by your response I'm near speechless. And it takes a lot
>>to shut me up. ;-)
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>Obviously, you did not credit my warning as I was saying that I am not
>concerned about details (I understood everything I have read about the
>question). I was lacking the basic understanding of the upgrade
>procedure. Oracle documentation tends to be long-breathing.
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You'll get no sympathy from me on that one.

>Since I never did any upgrading, it was not clear to me whether
>upgrading would refer to the binaries as well (it refers only to the
>DB files). Which is impossible for you to imagine. So we found the
>real cause of your spechlessness: Lack of imagination.
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Well I think Brian told you upgrading does not replace binaries and that is only true in the sense that you don't overwrite the previously existing version.

>>Isn't there someone else in your organization that can perform this
>>upgrade. It seems you really
>>need a mentor from inside your organization or should hire a consultant
>>for a week.
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>If I remember right: laughing on the floor... or something similar.
>Don't need any consultant.
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>Rick Denoire
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You could fool me ... but Ok. Just remember others will be laughing if you ask any more
extraordinarily basic questions or make a mess of it all. The one person that will not be laughing,
of course, will be your boss.

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