Re: Oracle and DST changes

Oracle 10.1.0.3 Solaris 9

Mark and Tom:

I have several 10.1.0.3 databases with no possibility of upgrading.

I wonder if I might prevail on you to review these steps and let me know if this is what you did to upgrade your timezones for a 10.1.0.3 database

1. Downloaded patch 5126270, manually placed the timezdif.csv in $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo and ran utltzuv2.sql
2. After step 1, I do not appear to have affected data, nor do I have Java issues
3. I downloaded patch 4689959 for 10.1.0.4
4. I plan to manually move the timezlrg.dat and timezone.dat files to $ORACLEl_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo

Does this sound correct?

I've downloaded about a bazillion metalink articles, and I'm still struggling.

Thanks for any help!

Barb

On 1/30/07, Mark Strickland <strickland.mark_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just realized that on one of my dev/test servers, Oracle was never
> upgraded from 10.1.0.3 to 10.1.0.5 (egg on face). There is no DST patch
> for 10.1.0.3 but I compared the old versions of the timezone files between
> the two patchsets and they are identical so I copied the new timezone files
> from 10.1.0.5 to 10.1.0.3 and called it good. The test query does return
> the correct time. I don't like doing spur-of-the-moment upgrades and this
> particular server and database are expected to be sunsetted sometime this
> century, so I decided not to quickly upgrade it. I may decide to do that
> later.
>
> So, if you have 10.1.0.3 and can't upgrade to a higher 10gR1 patchset,
> there appears to be a workaround. If I encounter side-effects, I'll be sure
> to update the list.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Strickland
>

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