March 30, 2010 3:02 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Co-Workers,
DBA,
Politics,
Sybase,
Sybase 15,
UpgradeI have been working on a upgrade for one of our production systems from Sybase 12.5 to Sybase 15 for some time now. I, and my team, have done all the work from a DBA perspective to make sure that we are good to go for the upgrade. We have a system ready for testing and have provided connectivity...
May 20, 2009 4:27 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Database,
Database Administration,
Oracle,
UpgradeLast Sunday morning I came in to work at just after 2:00 AM and did the upgrade on our Production Oracle system. Since I had done this a few times on our test system I was ready for anything to happen. I had already installed the new version of Oracle and so I brought the DB Down changed my...
April 23, 2009 2:25 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Database Administration,
DBA,
Oracle,
UpgradeI was able to finish up the Oracle Upgrade that I wanted to do today. First I removed the previous installation of Oracle 10 on the server. I then installed the software and all patches that I needed. I then changed my variables to reflect the new Oracle Home Directory that I wanted to use. After...
April 22, 2009 3:34 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Database Administration,
DBA,
Oracle,
UpgradeToday I will again embark on the journey that is Upgrading Oracle. This will be the third and final time that I do this on our test system in preparation to upgrade our Production Cluster that also has a DataGaurd Backup solution. I expect this process to take a about 4 hours including the removal...
