Moving from XI R2 SP2 to XI 3.0 - clean install or upgrade?

My company is currently using Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 SP2 and they want to move to XI R3.0. Is there any benefit to completely wiping the previous version and doing a clean install compared to trying to use the upgrade process?
I'm still fairly new to this product so I don't know whether we do anything considered out of the norm. I presume we can back up our files/settings from R2, and them re-import them into R3.
If anyone has any advice as to what is the better approach I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Hi,
I am going to be running the upgrade on a demo install next week. It is a single box installation, so the upgrade should work. If it does not I will be falling back and creating a clean install, and upgrading the db. Finally if this is not successful I will be trying to use the import wizard.
I will update with the progress.
Regards
Alan

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Make sure you have a restorable backup (clone or
Time Machine) just in case.
Now, if over time you have accumulated a lot of flotsam
and stuff you don't need or want, then a clean install is the
way to go. You will at least have some piece of mind that
any issues that occur, aren't caused by some obscure piece
of code loaded years ago that has just been carted along
and now rears its ugly head and is near impossible to identify.
Also, if intending to do a clean install, reformat the hard drive
with the write zeroes option enabled. This will take longer but
will force the drive to map out any bad sectors that may have
accumulated over time.
As for myself, I had gone the upgrade route on my three Macs.
Well, my score is 2 for 3. My iMac and Macbook Pro went just
fine and are working well. My Mac Mini on the other hand had some
serious issues, some of which are still unresolved. All of them
related to its use as a media center for my home entertainment
system. Probably, some one using as just a computer platform
may not even see the issues. I haven't tried a clean install just
yet for the reasons that Barney-15E had mentioned.

Primary Key Violation at the time of Moving from primary range to secondary range.

Hi Experts,
I've observed a strange issue in our environment.
we are using sql server 2008 R2 with SP2.
whenever a table is moving from primary range to secondary range on it's identity values, application is getting crashed with the message as below.
Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK6'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TD_TRANN'. The duplicate key value is (17868679).
The statement has been terminated.
OR
Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'IX_TDS_COST'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TDS_COST'. The duplicate key value is (17, 19431201).
identity ranges were auto managed by replication. agents are running continuous.
please suggest.
Cheers, Vinod Mallolu

Well this is pretty simple, so there are two type of subscriptions (Server and client) in merge replication. So while adding article you provide following parameters:
@pub_identity_range
@identity_range
You can check the details of above parameters on following article:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174329.aspx
Snippet
@pub_identity_range= ]
pub_identity_range
Controls the identity range size allocated to a Subscriber with a server subscription when automatic identity range management is used. This identity range is reserved for a republishing Subscriber to allocate to its own Subscribers.
pub_identity_range is bigint, with a default of NULL. You must specify this parameter if
identityrangemanagementoption is auto or if
auto_identity_range is true.
[ @identity_range= ]
identity_range
Controls the identity range size allocated both to the Publisher and to the Subscriber when automatic identity range management is used.
identity_range is bigint, with a default of NULL. You must specify this parameter if
identityrangemanagementoption is auto or if
auto_identity_range is true.
So for example you are adding "Server" type subscription then we consider @pub_identity_range value while assigning the range to that sub. If it is "Client" type subscription in that case we consider @identity_range value.
You could run following query to check the range assigned to each publisher and subscriber:
SELECT B.SUBSCRIBER_SERVER,B.DB_NAME,A.* FROM MSMERGE_IDENTITY_RANGE A,SYSMERGESUBSCRIPTIONS B
WHERE A.SUBID=B.SUBID
This should answer your other question as well.
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Problem Moving From the Standard Edition to the Enterprise Edition

Hi !
I am trying to move from Oracle 10g R2 10.2.0.1 Standard Edition to Oracle 10g R2 10.2.0.1 Enterprise Edition.
Platform is MS Windows XP PRO SP2
I follow all steps described in "Oracle® Database Upgrade Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2)" - section Moving From the Standard Edition to the Enterprise Edition.
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14238/intro.htm#sthref10
The problem is that after update from St. edition to Ent. edition when I run:
select * from v$version - I see :
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
while I expect to see something like .....
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options
Am I wrong ? Why information in view v$version does not update after this ?
Regards,
Phil
Message was edited by:
user585467

In your document you refer to the upgrade guide, this upgrade guide applies when you are upgrading from previous Oracle releases to 10g, not SE->EE.
If you want a procedure to upgrade the SE to EE, then follow this metalink note:
"How to Upgrade from Standard to Enterprise Edition ?
Doc ID: Note:117048.1"
If you performed this specific upgrade and you still see this error, then probably you are facing a bug, similar to the one described in "5844095", where the version is changed form SE->EE after 10.2.0.3 patchset application.
In your case it should be enough to apply 10.2.0.3 patchset to show it properly.
~ Madrid

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