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Y V Ravikumar, K M  Krishnakumar and Nassyam Basha, Oracle Database Upgrade and Migration Methods, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2328-4_4

4. Upgrade Using a Database Backup

Y V Ravikumar1, K M Krishnakumar2 and Nassyam Basha

(1)Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

(2)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

(3)Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India

From this chapter’s title you might be thinking that you need to take a backup prior to upgrading or migrating, but where will the backup be used in the upgrade? Your second question may be about why you need to upgrade with a backup when the database is available? In this chapter, you’ll dig into the answers to these questions, including why and when backups are required when upgrading. ...

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