Database upgrade methods
As stated earlier in Chapter 2, there is a MOS document called Oracle 11gR2 Upgrade Companion [see ID 785351.1], which I personally think is a misleading title. It implies that this is a utility of sorts, but it is only a very long document on everything you would ever want to know about upgrading. It applies to every installation type (see the following list of configurations, this is the same list mentioned in Chapter 2 in the Recommended Patches section) and can be very confusing to new DBAs.
Targeted configurations in the upgrade companion:
- Generic
- Real Application Clusters and CRS
- Data Guard (and/or Streams)
- Exadata
- Oracle e-business suite
The upgrade companion seems to be a document taking all of the possible things that ...
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