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April Sims
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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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Database upgrade methods


As stated earlier in Chapter 2, there is a MOS document called Oracle 11gR2 Upgrade Companion [see ID 785351.1], which I personally think is a misleading title. It implies that this is a utility of sorts, but it is only a very long document on everything you would ever want to know about upgrading. It applies to every installation type (see the following list of configurations, this is the same list mentioned in Chapter 2 in the Recommended Patches section) and can be very confusing to new DBAs.

Targeted configurations in the upgrade companion:

  • Generic

  • Real Application Clusters and CRS

  • Data Guard (and/or Streams)

  • Exadata

  • Oracle e-business suite

The upgrade companion seems to be a document taking all of the possible things that could go wrong with an upgrade all bundled up in one place. I would recommend downloading the companion, and copying all of the text in a document to which you can then add comments or amend as needed. Take out the information that doesn't apply to...

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April Sims

April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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