database-upgrade

Happy New Year! Upgraded 12.1.0.1 Grid Infrastructure to 12.1.0.2 and applied the Oct 2014 PSU. Had an error during rootupgrade.sh as well, due to the ASM spfile being on disk instead of on ASM diskgroup (MOS Note: Upgrading ASM Failed With ORA-32002: cannot create SPFILE – Doc ID 1912581.1). The install & upgrade steps documented … Read more

If you are considering Oracle database upgrade from 9i/10g to 11gR2 or applying release patches (11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 or 11.2.0.4), several issues can be avoided by applying the recommended patches and PSU.  And if you are not on the latest 11gR2 release (11.2.0.3 or 11.2.0.4), I strongly recommend getting there, with the latest PSU possible… … Read more