You can't convert a non-Unicode ARS database to a Unicode one - which is what I think you're suggesting using the steps below. You'll need a clean install of 8.1/Unicode and some sort of migration of data. If you check back through the archives there are various threads which go into the details of why the conversion is not likely to work.
Mark From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Palmer Sent: 25 June 2013 15:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Moving from Solaris to Linux ** Hi Everyone, Our current environment is Solaris 10 with Oracle 10g non-unicode and ARS 7.5P4. We are trying to move to a Linux CentOS release 6.4 Final (Red Hat Linus 6.4) with Oracle 11g unicode and ARS 8.1. These are VM instances. We are finding the Linux box does want Oracle 10g. Since we are moving to a new server we wanted to do fresh installs at the 10g level and do an import of our database, then proceed with the oracle upgrade and ARS upgrade. So we thought we would start with an 11g db on the linux box and go from there but when we tried the 7.5 install it said it wouldn't work on 11g. When I check the compatibility chart it indicated 10g or higher for 7.5. So the basic steps we'd like to do: Install 11g on the linux server. Export 10g from current server and import it into 11g. Install ARS 7.5 (we received an error at this point saying it wouldn't work on 11g ???) Install ARS 8.1 Has anyone done something similar? Is there something wrong with our approach? Appreciate any feedback you can provide. Thanks, Susan Susan Palmer ShopperTrak 233 S Wacker Drive 41st floor Chicago, IL 60606 312-529-5325 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
