RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Gary Weber
Not 100% sure, but I don't believe you can do a "rolling" upgrade in OPS configuration. All or nothing deal it seems. I can't imagine DLM capable of operating with different Oracle versions in multiple instances. My guess is, you could upgrade one box in the cluster at a time, but you would need t

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation You can do rolling upgrades on OPS, yes. For quite some time, nownot a "new feature" either. -Original Message- From: Gary Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:04 PM To

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Gary Weber
Title: RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation So, when freshly upgraded box comes online, lock manager doesn't have a problem with different versions? And on related note, at what point is the data dictionary upgraded? Having never done this, I'm rath

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation Gary,   i wish i knew the answers to those good questions.   Consider though, that until recently the DLM was the job of the OS vendor NOT the dbms vendor and so a dbms version tick changed nothing in that regard.   as for

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Murali Vallath
Mohan Could you explain or tell us more about this. Murali Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:25:44 -0800 You can do rolling upgrades on OPS, yes. For quite some time, nownot a "new feature" either. -Ori

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Nelson, Greg
I've run OPS on OpenVMS and HPUX and you can't do a rolling upgrade without contortions. The actual database files are shared by the nodes so you usually wouldn't want different versions of Oracle sharing the files. When you install Oracle software on HPUX the software is pushed to the other nod

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-22 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation Someone at MetaToke must have pried their lips off the crack pipe, because I was able to hobble through a small query. Despite the fact that i remember specifically reading oracle documentation on OPS ( 73? 80? not 8i...) that

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-25 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Murali, There was a thread on this on Ixora Answers in January ... http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0101/06105002.htm @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 23 February 2001 4:41 To: Multiple recipien