Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: upgrading from oracle 8i to 9i or 10g

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Posted by Andrew Piskorski on
Andrea, yes, you should upgrade directly from 8i to 10g, AFAIK there is no reason you should use 9i at all. There are many ways to upgrade to 10g... Read Oracle's docs on the subject. Probably the simplest way - and it's what I did - is to export all your data from 8i, and import it into 10g.

You seem to be messing with Oracle on Windows. This is the wrong place to ask about that, few folks here use Windows much, and those who do use Windows are probably running PostgreSQL on it, not Oracle.

I have installed and used the Oracle client libraries on Windows. As I recall, the Oracle installers screwed up its Windows file permissions, and the Oracle client stuff (sqlplus, etc.) would not work at all until I manually fixed the Windows file permissions. The Oracle error message also was completely useless, it said nothing at all about file permissions. So, that's one possible snafu to consider...