Uninstall Oracle on Sun box

[Glenstr]

Been working with NT a little to much! I need to upgrade from 8.1.5 to 8.1.7 on our Sun (test) box. Whats the best way to approach this? I need to first delete the database, then I was going to just blow away 8.1.5 and do a clean install of 8.1.7.

Is there an uninstall program with the Sun version? If so, how do I run it?

Or can I "upgrade" oracle from one version to another? I have the downloaded .gz file for the 8.1.7

thanks in advance

[marist89]

I would just install 8.1.7 in a different $ORACLE_HOME. That way, you can use the migration assistant (odma) to upgrade your current database.

[pipo]

since there is no registry under Unix (which seems to be a proof of mental health), uninstallation is simply made by deleting unwanted files, after having stopped the database of course
you can simply stop your db, delete your files from ORACLE_HOME (be careful and keep init... files)
then install 8.1.7, and run upgrade scripts from $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin

[sambavan]

Oracle recomends that you install different versions in different homes. When you say you want to blow away the 8.1.5 installation, is there any functional instances under neath that. If so, first you would have to install the oracle 8.1.7 under a new product home, use the oracle data migration assistant to migrate the instance to the new version, then use the same oracle installer to uninstall the 8.1.5 binary. Then physically you got to go and delete those files from the directories.

Hope this is what you are looking for...
Sam