Re: FW: relink?

From: Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah_at_ora-600.net>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:16:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505241313170.3925@cpq7598>

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Ruth Gramolini wrote:

> You may not have to relink at all, if you are not really changing anything.
> See if your db's come up ok and if not, relink. Relinking is not very time
> consuming, IIRC so you might just want to do it for stuff and giggles.

Often the relink is not to make Oracle run, but to make sure that linking is *possible* under the new environment. It would suck to find out that relinking no longer worked later when you had forgotten about the server "rebuild" and had to apply a patch.

So... why are they "rebuilding" the server and what does that activity consist of?

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

> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org

>

> so they just told me that they're going to "rebuild" the one solaris

> server over the weekend,  if i remember correctly, any changes to the

> OS will require a "relink -all" before i bring all the databases back

> up.  or has bit rot set in and i'm misremembering?

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