Originally Posted by
onedbguru
dontinou,
After upgrading the binaries, did you follow the POST-UPGRADE procedures in the README? If not, why not? When dealing with patching and upgrades, you MUST follow the README explicitly or you may risk trashing your database - and hopefully it is not a production database.
On this "windows" crap, you apparently are not accustomed to actually reading the instructions. With Oracle, if you don't read the instructions you could severely cripple your system as the instructions are NOT necessarily the same for "the next patch". And if you have RAC - it is even more imperative that you do so.