ITS upgrade from 46D to 620

Hi
I am about to do ITS upgrade from 46D to 620. Could any one please tell me the step by step procedure to do this activity. Whether I need to uninstall 46D and do fresh installation of 620 or is it possible to do an upgrade to 620 without uninstalling 46D?
Please guide me.
Regards,
Vinodh.

Hi Vinodh
I Think the best way to go is Install ITS 6.20 and run both ITS's in parallel until the new ITS is tested, then remove the old ITS.
Best regards
Juan!

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  • Slow table creation after upgrade from 10.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.1 using DBUA

    I've recently completed a database upgrade from 10.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.1 using the DBUA.
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    By chance has anyone encountered something similar?
    The problem may be related to the behavior of an "after CREATE on schema" trigger which grants select privileges to a role through the use of a dbms_job call; between 10g and the database that was upgraded from 10G to 11g. Currently researching this angle.
    I will be using the following table creation DDL for this abbreviated test case:
    create table ALLIANCE  (
       ALLIANCEID           NUMBER(10)                      not null,
       NAME                 VARCHAR2(40)                    not null,
       CREATION_DATE        DATE,
       constraint PK_ALLIANCE primary key (ALLIANCEID)
               using index
           tablespace LIVE_INDEX
    tablespace LIVE_DATA;When calling the above DDL, an "after CREATE on schema" trigger is fired which schedules a job to immediately run to grant select privilege to a role for the table which was just created:
    create or replace
    trigger select_grant
    after CREATE on schema
    declare
        l_str varchar2(255);
        l_job number;
    begin
        if ( ora_dict_obj_type = 'TABLE' ) then
            l_str := 'execute immediate "grant select on ' ||
                                         ora_dict_obj_name ||
                                        ' to select_role";';
            dbms_job.submit( l_job, replace(l_str,'"','''') );
        end if;
    end;
    {code}
    Below I've included data on two separate test runs.  The first is on the upgraded database and includes optimizer parameters and an abbreviated TKPROF.  I've also, included the offending sys generate SQL which is not issued when the same test is run on a 10g environment that has been set up with a similar test case.  The 10g test run's TKPROF is also included below.
    The version of the database is 11.2.0.1.
    These are the parameters relevant to the optimizer for the test run on the upgraded 11g SID:
    {code}
    SQL> show parameter optimizer
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    optimizer_capture_sql_plan_baselines boolean     FALSE
    optimizer_dynamic_sampling           integer     2
    optimizer_features_enable            string      11.2.0.1
    optimizer_index_caching              integer     0
    optimizer_index_cost_adj             integer     100
    optimizer_mode                       string      ALL_ROWS
    optimizer_secure_view_merging        boolean     TRUE
    optimizer_use_invisible_indexes      boolean     FALSE
    optimizer_use_pending_statistics     boolean     FALSE
    optimizer_use_sql_plan_baselines     boolean     TRUE
    SQL> show parameter db_file_multi
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    db_file_multiblock_read_count        integer     8
    SQL> show parameter db_block_size
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    db_block_size                        integer     8192
    SQL> show parameter cursor_sharing
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    cursor_sharing                       string      EXACT
    SQL> column sname format a20
    SQL> column pname format a20
    SQL> column pval2 format a20
    SQL> select sname, pname, pval1, pval2 from sys.aux_stats$;
    SNAME                PNAME                     PVAL1 PVAL2
    SYSSTATS_INFO        STATUS                          COMPLETED
    SYSSTATS_INFO        DSTART                          03-11-2010 16:33
    SYSSTATS_INFO        DSTOP                           03-11-2010 17:03
    SYSSTATS_INFO        FLAGS                         0
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        CPUSPEEDNW           713.978495
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        IOSEEKTIM                    10
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        IOTFRSPEED                 4096
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        SREADTIM               1565.746
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        MREADTIM
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        CPUSPEED                   2310
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        MBRC
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        MAXTHR
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        SLAVETHR
    13 rows selected.
    {code}
    Output from TKPROF on the 11g SID:
    {code}
    create table ALLIANCE  (
       ALLIANCEID           NUMBER(10)                      not null,
       NAME                 VARCHAR2(40)                    not null,
       CREATION_DATE        DATE,
       constraint PK_ALLIANCE primary key (ALLIANCEID)
               using index
           tablespace LIVE_INDEX
    tablespace LIVE_DATA
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          4           0
    Fetch        0      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    total        2      0.00       0.00          0          0          4           0
    Misses in library cache during parse: 1
    Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
    Parsing user id: 324
    {code}
    ... large section omitted ...
    Here is the performance hit portion of the TKPROF on the 11g SID:
    {code}
    SQL ID: fsbqktj5vw6n9
    Plan Hash: 1443566277
    select next_run_date, obj#, run_job, sch_job
    from
    (select decode(bitand(a.flags, 16384), 0, a.next_run_date,
      a.last_enabled_time) next_run_date,       a.obj# obj#,
      decode(bitand(a.flags, 16384), 0, 0, 1) run_job, a.sch_job  sch_job  from
      (select p.obj# obj#, p.flags flags, p.next_run_date next_run_date,
      p.job_status job_status, p.class_oid class_oid,      p.last_enabled_time
      last_enabled_time, p.instance_id instance_id,      1 sch_job   from
      sys.scheduler$_job p   where bitand(p.job_status, 3) = 1    and
      ((bitand(p.flags, 134217728 + 268435456) = 0) or
      (bitand(p.job_status, 1024) <> 0))    and bitand(p.flags, 4096) = 0    and
      p.instance_id is NULL    and (p.class_oid is null      or (p.class_oid is
      not null      and p.class_oid in (select b.obj# from sys.scheduler$_class b
                               where b.affinity is null)))   UNION ALL   select
      q.obj#, q.flags, q.next_run_date, q.job_status, q.class_oid,
      q.last_enabled_time, q.instance_id, 1   from sys.scheduler$_lightweight_job
      q   where bitand(q.job_status, 3) = 1    and ((bitand(q.flags, 134217728 +
      268435456) = 0) or         (bitand(q.job_status, 1024) <> 0))    and
      bitand(q.flags, 4096) = 0    and q.instance_id is NULL    and (q.class_oid
      is null      or (q.class_oid is not null      and q.class_oid in (select
      c.obj# from sys.scheduler$_class c                          where
      c.affinity is null)))   UNION ALL   select j.job, 0,
      from_tz(cast(j.next_date as timestamp),      to_char(systimestamp,'TZH:TZM')
      ), 1, NULL,      from_tz(cast(j.next_date as timestamp),
      to_char(systimestamp,'TZH:TZM')),     NULL, 0   from sys.job$ j   where
      (j.field1 is null or j.field1 = 0)    and j.this_date is null) a   order by
      1)   where rownum = 1
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    Fetch        1      0.47       0.47          0       9384          0           1
    total        3      0.48       0.48          0       9384          0           1
    Misses in library cache during parse: 1
    Optimizer mode: CHOOSE
    Parsing user id: SYS   (recursive depth: 1)
    Rows     Row Source Operation
          1  COUNT STOPKEY (cr=9384 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)
          1   VIEW  (cr=9384 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=5344 size=6615380 card=194570)
          1    SORT ORDER BY STOPKEY (cr=9384 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=5344 size=11479630 card=194570)
    194790     VIEW  (cr=9384 pr=0 pw=0 time=537269 us cost=2563 size=11479630 card=194570)
    194790      UNION-ALL  (cr=9384 pr=0 pw=0 time=439235 us)
        231       FILTER  (cr=68 pr=0 pw=0 time=920 us)
        231        TABLE ACCESS FULL SCHEDULER$_JOB (cr=66 pr=0 pw=0 time=690 us cost=19 size=13157 card=223)
          1        TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID SCHEDULER$_CLASS (cr=2 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=1 size=40 card=1)
          1         INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SCHEDULER$_CLASS_PK (cr=1 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=0 size=0 card=1)(object id 5056)
          0       FILTER  (cr=3 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)
          0        TABLE ACCESS FULL SCHEDULER$_LIGHTWEIGHT_JOB (cr=3 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=2 size=95 card=1)
          0        TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID SCHEDULER$_CLASS (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=1 size=40 card=1)
          0         INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SCHEDULER$_CLASS_PK (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=0 size=0 card=1)(object id 5056)
    194559       TABLE ACCESS FULL JOB$ (cr=9313 pr=0 pw=0 time=167294 us cost=2542 size=2529254 card=194558)
    {code}
    and the totals at the end of the TKPROF on the 11g SID:
    {code}
    OVERALL TOTALS FOR ALL NON-RECURSIVE STATEMENTS
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    Execute      2      0.00       0.00          0          0          4           0
    Fetch        0      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    total        3      0.00       0.00          0          0          4           0
    Misses in library cache during parse: 1
    Misses in library cache during execute: 1
    OVERALL TOTALS FOR ALL RECURSIVE STATEMENTS
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse       70      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    Execute     85      0.01       0.01          0         62        208          37
    Fetch       49      0.48       0.49          0       9490          0          35
    total      204      0.51       0.51          0       9552        208          72
    Misses in library cache during parse: 5
    Misses in library cache during execute: 3
       35  user  SQL statements in session.
       53  internal SQL statements in session.
       88  SQL statements in session.
    Trace file: 11gSID_ora_17721.trc
    Trace file compatibility: 11.1.0.7
    Sort options: default
           1  session in tracefile.
          35  user  SQL statements in trace file.
          53  internal SQL statements in trace file.
          88  SQL statements in trace file.
          51  unique SQL statements in trace file.
        1590  lines in trace file.
          18  elapsed seconds in trace file.
    {code}
    The version of the database is 10.2.0.3.0.
    These are the parameters relevant to the optimizer for the test run on the 10g SID:
    {code}
    SQL> show parameter optimizer
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    optimizer_dynamic_sampling           integer     2
    optimizer_features_enable            string      10.2.0.3
    optimizer_index_caching              integer     0
    optimizer_index_cost_adj             integer     100
    optimizer_mode                       string      ALL_ROWS
    optimizer_secure_view_merging        boolean     TRUE
    SQL> show parameter db_file_multi
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    db_file_multiblock_read_count        integer     8
    SQL> show parameter db_block_size
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    db_block_size                        integer     8192
    SQL> show parameter cursor_sharing
    NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
    cursor_sharing                       string      EXACT
    SQL> column sname format a20
    SQL> column pname format a20
    SQL> column pval2 format a20
    SQL> select sname, pname, pval1, pval2 from sys.aux_stats$;
    SNAME                PNAME                     PVAL1 PVAL2
    SYSSTATS_INFO        STATUS                          COMPLETED
    SYSSTATS_INFO        DSTART                          09-24-2007 11:09
    SYSSTATS_INFO        DSTOP                           09-24-2007 11:09
    SYSSTATS_INFO        FLAGS                         1
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        CPUSPEEDNW           2110.16949
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        IOSEEKTIM                    10
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        IOTFRSPEED                 4096
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        SREADTIM
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        MREADTIM
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        CPUSPEED
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        MBRC
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        MAXTHR
    SYSSTATS_MAIN        SLAVETHR
    13 rows selected.
    {code}
    Now for the TKPROF of a mirrored test environment running on a 10G SID:
    {code}
    create table ALLIANCE  (
       ALLIANCEID           NUMBER(10)                      not null,
       NAME                 VARCHAR2(40)                    not null,
       CREATION_DATE        DATE,
       constraint PK_ALLIANCE primary key (ALLIANCEID)
               using index
           tablespace LIVE_INDEX
    tablespace LIVE_DATA
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    Execute      1      0.00       0.01          0          2         16           0
    Fetch        0      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    total        2      0.01       0.01          0          2         16           0
    Misses in library cache during parse: 1
    Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
    Parsing user id: 113
    {code}
    ... large section omitted ...
    Totals for the TKPROF on the 10g SID:
    {code}
    OVERALL TOTALS FOR ALL NON-RECURSIVE STATEMENTS
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse        1      0.00       0.02          0          0          0           0
    Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          2         16           0
    Fetch        0      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
    total        2      0.00       0.02          0          2         16           0
    Misses in library cache during parse: 1
    OVERALL TOTALS FOR ALL RECURSIVE STATEMENTS
    call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
    Parse       65      0.01       0.01          0          1         32           0
    Execute     84      0.04       0.09         20         90        272          35
    Fetch       88      0.00       0.10         30        281          0          64
    total      237      0.07       0.21         50        372        304          99
    Misses in library cache during parse: 38
    Misses in library cache during execute: 32
       10  user  SQL statements in session.
       76  internal SQL statements in session.
       86  SQL statements in session.
    Trace file: 10gSID_ora_32003.trc
    Trace file compatibility: 10.01.00
    Sort options: default
           1  session in tracefile.
          10  user  SQL statements in trace file.
          76  internal SQL statements in trace file.
          86  SQL statements in trace file.
          43  unique SQL statements in trace file.
         949  lines in trace file.
           0  elapsed seconds in trace file.
    {code}
    Edited by: user8598842 on Mar 11, 2010 5:08 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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

    So while this certainly isn't the most elegant of solutions, and most assuredly isn't in the realm of supported by Oracle...
    I've used the DBMS_IJOB.DROP_USER_JOBS('username'); package to remove the 194558 orphaned job entries from the job$ table. Don't ask, I've no clue how they all got there; but I've prepared some evil looks to unleash upon certain developers tomorrow morning.
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    I assume that the following quote from the 11gR2 documentation is mistaken, and there is no such beast as "create or replace table" in 11g:
    http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10592/statements_9003.htm#i2061306
    "Dropping a table invalidates dependent objects and removes object privileges on the table. If you want to re-create the table, then you must regrant object privileges on the table, re-create the indexes, integrity constraints, and triggers for the table, and respecify its storage parameters. Truncating and replacing have none of these effects. Therefore, removing rows with the TRUNCATE statement or replacing the table with a *CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE* statement can be more efficient than dropping and re-creating a table."

  • Does anyone know how to upgrade from 4.1 to 4.3 ios?

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    iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes.
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