RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3 (fwd)

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, John Weatherman wrote:

> Clean up fragmentation/chaining, change block size at the same time,
> in my current case, chage hardware platform...
>
> All sorts of reasons. :)

What do those things have to do with an upgrade?

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> -----Original Message-----

> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Browett, Darren wrote:

> 

> > The previous DBA, also used the export/import method, and is the method

> > I am most likely going to use.

> 

> Can someone explain why anyone would opt for export/import as a path

> to do an 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade?  Doesn't the basic upgrade just consist

> of starting the instance on the new ORACLE_HOME and running an upgrade

> script?  Why would someone undergo the disruption and complexity of a

> full export/import when you can just leave the data where it is?



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