January 26 2011

Upgrading Oracle Database from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2

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Upgrade steps for Oracle DB from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 :

(1) Make sure you have taken level 0 database backup.

(2) Ensure that 11.2.0.2 (out-of-place) rdbms binary has been installed in new home e.g. /usr/oracle_gxs2/oracle/product/11.2/db_1.

(3) Please refer to Metalink / My Oracle Support document 1201253.1 to check for DST update action. In this scenario, we assume that no application schema object using datatype TSLTZ or TSTZ, hence no action on DST required.

January 14 2011

Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure patchset 11.2.0.2 from 11.2.0.1 (Part 2)

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Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure patchset to 11.2.0.2, follow the steps below:

(1) Unset all GI, CRS and RDBMS related environment variable.
For example: ORA_CRS_HOME, ORACLE_HOME, ORA_NLS10, TNS_ADMIN ..
(2) Goto extracted GI files and run “runInstaller”

January 14 2011

Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure patchset 11.2.0.2 from 11.2.0.1 (Part 1)

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Scenario:

Existing 3-node Oracle RAC GI (Grid Infrastructure) is running 11.2.0.1 in RHEL 5.3 x86_64 with patch 9413827 at Non-share GI ORACLE_HOME .

GI OS owner id: oracle

Environment variable,
export ORACLE_BASE=/usr/grid_gxs/grid
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/grid_gxs/oracle/product/11.2/grid
Exising GI filesystem,
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg01-grid_gxs
                      30963708  17473048  13490660  57% /usr/grid_gxs