Re: how goes 10.1.0.4 testing?

uh, yeah.
my favorite is if one installed 8i/9i on win32 using defaults which put the oracle home in say d:\oracle\ora92 and the inventory location (inst_loc) in c:\program files\oracle\Inventory ... 10.1 won't even install.
The solution is to uninstall/reinstall using 10g OFA. Not a huge deal, just adds to the maintenance window and adds a reboot. With an uninstall/reinstall, no sense jumping through the hoops of the 10.1.0.2, 9.2.0.5.0, 9.2.0.5.3 opatch fun, might as well go straight to 9.2.0.6. Maybe.
setting %ORACLE_BASE%=D:\oracle sure works better, with the new 9.2 home being D:\oracle\product\9.2.0, just like on the *nix installs. (feel free to chime in here MT).
9.2.0.5.3 was pretty good as far as we were concerned. Hit no bugs. 9.2.0.6 is no fun. 2 one-off patchsets already for win32 out there ... didn't mess with them.
10.1.0.3 has lots of fixes (issues) ... which is why we're being ambitious on testing 10.1.0.4
(I ignored 8.0.x entirely, as well as 8.1.5 and 9.0.1). Figured with the downtime windows available last night/today that I'd get 10.1.0.4 rolled out to some test servers.

gotta do something until the poker game tonight ...

Paul  

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:24:24 -0500, Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us> wrote:
> I'm waiting for 10.2. There is no way I would recommend 10.1 to my current
> employer.
>
> We just applied the "January 2005" 1st quarter patch to one of our 9.2.0.4
> databases. The patch process has a bug. It doesn't update the inventory
> xml file properly. The work-around is to go in and update the file by hand.
> Talk about crap. It's bad enough that Oracle can't test the database
> software well enough and they have forced us into this monthly/quarterly
> patching process. But now, they can't even create patching software that
> works good enough without *it* having bugs in it.
>
> Looks to me like Oracle has slipped back to the "bad old days" of releasing
> stuff much too soon before it's ready. And we are stuck with cleaning up
> after them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:59 PM
> To: Oracle Discussion List
> Subject: how goes 10.1.0.4 testing?
>
> I haven't applied it to any lin32 boxes, but have been testing it on win32.
> So far, no issues.
> Just wondering if anyone has hit any potholes out there.
>
> thanks.
>
> Paul
>
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