Re: VAX Upgrade

From: Matthew F. Reagan <mreagan_at_fast.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:07:26 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6434$e28d7400$038dbacc@dnsp>

Bob,

There is a patch available from Oracle that will allow you to upgrade the operating system and still run V 7.1 of Oracle. However, this is ONLY for porting purposes. They do not support it for any production use.

I would not rely on it for my production database, but it would let you upgrade the OS first, then the DB.

I have not tried it yet. My upgrade path is to set up a clone of the production environment and make my mistakes there. Once I have a "tested" plan, I'll do it to production.

Matt...

bp_at_bp.com wrote in article
<01bd6300$a6661660$af1467a1_at_eugraw2197.gra.eu.bp.com>...
> Hi There,
>
> I need to upgrade a VAX running openVMS 6.1 and 7.1 of the RDBMS to
VMS7.1
> and 7.3 of the RDBMS. After consulting ORACLE I have been informed that
the
> operating system & rdbms have to be upgraded simultaneously (I don't
think
> so !!!!)
>
> Has anyone out there managed to upgrade successfully without having to do
> this.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Muir
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 09 1998 - 23:07:26 CDT