Multiple Versions

Multiple hop upgrades? Execute the matching preupgrade scripts for each hop

We discussed an interesting upgrade case last week together with our upgrade colleagues in Support – and learned the double-hop (or triple-hop) upgrade case is not described in the documentation somewhere.

What is a multiple-hop upgrade?

Triple Jump

Triple Jump – Willie Banks – Olympics 1988 Seoul

Actually this describes the case where somebody can’t upgrade directly and has to do several upgrades in a sequence to reach the targeted release. For example, you start of with an Oracle 10.2.0.3 database – and your targeted release is Oracle 12.2.0.1 . A direct upgrade is not possible. I would opt now for Data …

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