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Upgrade question to which the answer is probably RTFM but I can't be arsed

Posted in 2005

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Can I upgrade directly from IDS 9.20 to 9.40 latest? thanks Neil

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Andrew — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:3ati3iF6enbd4U1@individual.net... > Can I upgrade directly from IDS 9.20 to 9.40 latest? > > thanks > Neil > I've just done it with 9.21 if that helps at all

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Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Andrew" <a@a.co.uk> wrote in message news:wvh2e.22842$ME3.21210@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net... > > "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message > news:3ati3iF6enbd4U1@individual.net... >> Can I upgrade directly from IDS 9.20 to 9.40 latest? >> >> thanks >> Neil >> > I've just done it with 9.21 if that helps at all Thaks. And you didn't have to upgrade to 9.30 as an intermediate step or anything?

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Andrew — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:3atnk6F6eqld4U1@individual.net... > "Andrew" <a@a.co.uk> wrote in message > news:wvh2e.22842$ME3.21210@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net... > > > > "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message > > news:3ati3iF6enbd4U1@individual.net... > >> Can I upgrade directly from IDS 9.20 to 9.40 latest? > >> > >> thanks > >> Neil > >> > > I've just done it with 9.21 if that helps at all > > Thaks. And you didn't have to upgrade to 9.30 as an intermediate step or > anything? > Nope - all I did was take a backup, copy the Informix directory - install into the current directory, reinitialise, wait for the db up upgrade to the new file format (few minutes on a 150Gb+ instance) bounced the server - update statistics, consistency checking and Bob's yer transvestire Aunty.Think it's only from 7.x that you have to do an interim

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Andrew Hamm — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

that's not what I've heard...

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Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Andrew" <a@a.co.uk> wrote in message news:aYj2e.23231$ME3.8335@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net... >> Thaks. And you didn't have to upgrade to 9.30 as an intermediate step or >> anything? >> > Nope - all I did was take a backup, copy the Informix directory - install > into the current directory, reinitialise, wait for the db up upgrade to > the > new file format (few minutes on a 150Gb+ instance) bounced the server - > update statistics, consistency checking and Bob's yer transvestire Aunty.> Think it's only from 7.x that you have to do an interim Thanks very much. Although my transvestite auntie is actually called Mary ...

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