Oracle database Upgrade from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.

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Prerequisites and Precautionary actions before starting DB Upgrade:

1) Take a backup of the Oracle database: Online or Offline

2) Take a file system level backup of 102_64 Directory

     Tar command or backup command or even cp (Recursive) is

     recommended for oracle binary backup as it will back up the links and
     Permissions of the binaries

     Example:

     tar –cvf 102_64.tar ./oracle/<SID>/102_64

                                 OR

     cp –pR /oracle/<SID>/102_64 /backup  

3) Download the Oracle Patch Set 10.2.0.4 from SAP Service Market place

     https://websmp209.sap-ag.de/patches > Database Patches (from other vendors)

     Add the four BIN files to the download basket as shown below and download it

4) Copy the files to the DB Server (AIX) :

Ftp the downloaded files to Server where DB Instance runs:

Directory should have 10 GB Free space (check by du –g command)

Patchset_10204_AIX5Laa.bin
 Patchset_10204_AIX5Lab.bin
Patchset_10204_AIX5Lac.bin
Patchset_10204_AIX5Lad.bin

Concatenate the four files using cat command

Example:

cd /oracle/Oraclepatchset

“cat Patchset_10204_AIX5Laa.bin Patchset_10204_AIX5Lab.bin

Patchset_10204_AIX5Lac.bin Patchset_10204_AIX5Lad.bin >> Orapatch.zip”

     unzip Orapatch.zip    # this will create the Oracle Patch directory “Disk1”

Change the ownership of the directory to oracle user and dba group

“chown –R ora<sid>:dba Disk1”  as root user

4) Download Opatch tool and all the Opatch available from SAP SMP and copy the
files to a directory in the DB Server and unzip the files using unzip command

Example:

unzip p5561212_10204_AIX5L.zip

Process for upgrading Oracle Patch Set

To upgrade the Oracle database from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4, follow the process given below:

1. 1. Pre-Upgrade tasks

a. a. Shutdown the Oracle Database

 Switch user as oracle user:  su – ora<sid>

 Stop listener service : lsnrctl stop     
 Shutdown Oracle database:

               sqlplus /”as sysdba”

SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE

a. b. Start the Database in Upgrade mode

 sqlplus /”as sysdba”
                SQL> STARTUP UPGRADE

a. c. Run the Pre-Upgrade information tool

 SQL> SPOOL upgrade_info.log

 SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/utlu102i.sql

 Out put of the Pre-upgrade information tool will look like this

IF it prompts to run catupgrd.sql run

 SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/catupgrd.sql      

a. d. SHUTDOWN DATABASE

 sqlplus /"as sysdba"

 SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE

1. 1. DB Upgrade to 10.2.0.4

a. a. Set the environment variables for oracle user

 Connect to DB Server using XManager

 Switch user as oracle user:  su – ora<sid>
 Make a temp directory for Oracle Patchset Installation

mkdir /oracle/<SID>/sapdata1/tmpdir
               setenv DISPLAY IPAddress: 1.0
               export DISPLAY=10.33.1.5:0.0
               setenv TMPDIR /oracle/<SID>/sapdata1/tmpdir
export TMPDIR=/oracle/GWQ/sapdata1/tmpdir/

a. b. Start the Database Upgrade

Change the directory to the Oracle Patchset directory 

cd /oracle/Oraclepatchset/Disk1

 Run the Oracle Universal Installer

./runInstaller
1. 3. Post -Upgrade tasks

a. a. Start the Oracle Database in UPGRADE MODE

 Switch user as oracle user:  su – ora<sid>
    
 Start Oracle database in upgrade mode:

                sqlplus /”as sysdba”

                SQL> STARTUP UPGRADE

a. b. Run the CATUPGRD.SQL command

                 sqlplus /”as sysdba

SQL> SPOOL patch.log
                 SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/catupgrd.sql
                 SQL> SPOOL OFF

a. c. Restart the Database 

                 sqlplus /”as sysdba”

                 SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE
                 SQL> STARTUP