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January 30, 2008
Moving AERO to 10gR2
Those of you familiar with the UCS department know that two key employees have moved on to different jobs in the past month - Joe Crowe and Travis Knabe. It's hard to see old friends leave, but just a part of life, I guess. For those of us remaining, we will replace the positions, meet new people, and move on. I mention this because Travis was a key player in making the upgrade of our Oracle database happen. It's kind of ironic, we were getting pretty close to doing an upgrade about a year ago, maybe more, when Troy Knabe left (Travis' brother), putting this project back to square one - Troy was "the" key person back then. Thankfully, Travis is still available to help on a reduced time basis, and we are mighty close to getting this upgrade completed.
We have a running 10g database on our backup server (not production) that has a functioning web server and a web interface to the Oracle Enterprise Manager. This was our practice upgrade of a copy of our production database, and with a few wrinkles, went quite well.
The basic steps for completing the production upgrade are to modify the OS etc/system parameters on Sundown slightly, create Oracle Homes for the new database and HTTP server, install db and HTTP server, run the upgrade script to identify issues for the upgrade, perform the upgrade, re-configure and clean up old directories and legacy code.
Stay tuned for more blogs with upgrade details as we move forward.
Posted by rossm at January 30, 2008 9:53 AM
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