Step by Step Oracle11g Out-Of-Place

Upgrade from 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4 on

Windows 2008R2

By Jorge Batista
jorge.batista@premier-research.com

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OraclerecommendswhenupgradingtoOracleDatabase11gR2(11.2)thatyouperformanout
ofplacemodeupgrade,whichinstallsthenewsoftwareintoanewOraclehome.Thismeans
thatyouprovideadifferentOraclehomelocationforthenewupgrade

1. InstallingtheNewOracleDatabaseSoftwareintoanewOraclehome
2. RunthePreUpgradeInformationToolbeforeyouupgrade
ThePreUpgradeInformationToolisaSQLscriptincludedwithOracleDatabase11g
Release2(11.2)software(under\11g_ORACLE_HOME\rdbms\admin)
StartSQL*Plus
ConnecttothedatabaseinstanceasauserwithSYSDBAprivileges
Spoolresultstoalogfileforlateranalysis
SQL>SPOOLpreupgradeinfo.log
RunthePreUpgradeInformationTool
SQL>@E:\oracle\product\11.2.0\db11204\RDBMS\ADMIN\utlu112i.sql
SQL>SPOOLOFF
ChecktheoutputofthePreUpgradeInformationTool

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UpgradingwithDatabaseUpgradeAssistant
3. TheDBUAWelcomescreendisplays
ClickNexttocontinue

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 4. TheSelectDatabasepageappears,listingthedatabasesavailableforupgrade
Selectthedatabaseyouwanttoupgrade(Youcanselectonlyonedatabaseatatime)
ClickNexttocontinue

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 5. TheUpgradeOptionsscreendisplays
SelectRecompileinvalidobjectsattheendofupgrade
SelectBackupdatabaseONLYifyouwantDBUAtobackupyourdatabaseforyou
ClickNexttocontinue

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 6. TheMoveDatabaseFilesscreendisplays
SelectDoNotMoveDatabaseFilesasPartofUpgrade
ClickNexttocontinue

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 7. TheRecoveryandDiagnosticLocationsscreendisplays
Acceptthedefaultflashrecoveryarealocation
ClickNexttocontinue

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 8. TheSummaryscreenappears
ClickFinishifeverythingiscorrect

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9. TheProgressscreendisplays

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 10. UpgradeResultsscreendisplays

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