SQL*Plus Upgrade Questions [Help!!]
Hello,
Our project is using Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0 database and Oracle Dev Tools 6i Patch 3 (Form/Report Builder 6.0.8.12.1).
The SQL*Plus version that comes with this version is 8.0.6.0.0. We would like to upgrade to version 8.1.7.0.0. without having to upgrade the entire tool set [don't ask me why- politics ;)]. How can I do this? Is it even possible? I found some documentation that said all that was required for SQL Plus version 8.1.7.0.0 was Oracle 8i 8.1.7.0.0 database, which we have.
I grabbed Dev Tools 6i Patch 10 from MetaLink and installed in a seperate directory from one that our developers use as a test [for other unrelated issues]. Well, Patch 10 also comes with SQL Plus verison 8.0.6.0.0, even though it came out in early 2002, well after version 8.1.7.0.0 was released.
One of our test boxes has Oracle 9i iSuite installed, which does have SQL Plus 8.1.7.0.0. As a lark, I tried various was of simply moving its version (the .exe) and related .dlls to our existing test Dev 6i bin directory. No luck- all sorts of bizarre error messages. After I got through all the .dlls errors, I now get a
"The procedure entry point OCIUserCallbackRegister could not be located in the dll OCI.dll", even though the updated OCI.dll is in the bin.
I assume this all means that to upgrade from SQL Plus 8.0.6.0.0 to 8.1.7.0.0 it has to be installed [and not simply dropped]. Since the latest version of our tools [Dev 6i Patch 10] only has version 8.0.6.0.0, how can I install it?
HELP!!
Thanks in advance,
James Walters