RE: NT4 to W2000

For your more important databases it's useful sometimes to use Change Manager -- take a snapshot of the original db, upgrade, once the upgrade is finished, compared against the original.

Sometimes you find little quirks (e.g. some stored packages ending with a garbage character (a square); package bodies disappearing because the db links they contained were no longer valid, etc.)

It takes more time though. And I found that it helps when the servers involved are strong enough to handle the network traffic generated when you collect info on the databases. We ran into problems with one NT box, it seized up.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
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>From what I have seen, NT admins usually say something like "Yeah. We
upgraded from NT4 to 2000 once .... ONCE!!" My observations, as an application owner, not as an NT admin, are that the "upgrade" is usually not a smooth one for most applications. But Oracle seems to survive the trip reasonably well.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Are there any complications from upgrading the OS from NT4 to
> 2000 with
> an Oracle server V8.1.7.4?
>

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