Rolling Upgrade 9i - 10g - Shareplex or Oracle Streams

Does anyone have any experience using any of these two for the above upgrade?
Good or bad..?
Pros and Cons
(Also posted in General forum)

Hi Davey,
Does anyone have any experience using any of these two for the above upgrade?I do about one a week, and I use many methods, depending on the system. Beware, MetaLink says that in some cases, using shareplax can make you unsupported:
http://dba.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1059
If you are staying on the same server, you can upgrade from 9i to 10g with about 5 minutes of downtime.
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_rolling_upgrades.htm
To do this, you will be using transportable tablespaces. The only requirement is that all your tablespaces are locally managed. The idea is simple.
1) Install Oracle 10g to a separate Oracle Home on the same server
2) Create a 10g database with only the base tablespaces: SYSTEM, SYSAUX, UNDO, and TEMP
3) On the 9i database, put all your tablespaces into read only mode (write downtime begins)
4) Perform a transportable tablespace export of all non-system tablespaces (as a sysdba user)
5) Shut down the 9i database (true downtime begins)
6) Start up the 10g database
7) Perform a transportable tablespace import into the 10g database (end true downtime)
8) Make all your tablespaces read/write (end write downtime)
Here are my minimum downtime upgrade methods:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_mimimizing_downtime_release_upgrades.htm
Of course, there are an infinit numbers of ways to do it.
Also, make sure to check these notes for "gotchas" after to get to 10g:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_slow_performance_after_upgrade.htm
Hope this helps. . .
Donald K. Burleson
Oracle Press author
Author of "Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference":
http://www.dba-oracle.com/bp/s_oracle_tuning_book.htm

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