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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Sybase ASE 12.5 to 15 Upgradation Steps -II

Upgrade Steps:

Before proceeding with any further steps , please make sure preupgrade step is clean  and you have backup of all databases, tables etc.

1. Make sure you are in ASe 15 enviorment, ( by executing .profile_15)

2. cd to sample resource files directory.

3. copy the sql server resource file with new name before modifying original file.

4. Edit the resource file for the old sybase home dir (ASE 12.5),for reserver word check yes and update the resource file as per your enviorment.

5. No need to shutdown your ASE 12.5 server, sqlupgradres will take care all the things.

6.  Only execute this command once you have done with all above steps and you have taken all backup. (MOST IMPORTANT)

sqlupgraderes again perform preupgrade, before actual upgrade.( you can modify its behaviour in resource file).

sqlupgraderes will copy automatically the interface file, cfg file , run server file in ase 15x.

Execute the following command with resource file: sqlupgraderes -r <resource_file_name>

Copying interfaces file entry to new directory...

The interfaces file entry has been copied to the new directory.

Running preupgrade program...

The preupgrade program has completed successfully.

Checking reserved words in each database...

No reserved word conflicts were found.

Checkpointing all databases...

All databases have been checkpointed.

Copying configuration file to new directory...

The configuration file has been copied to the new directory.

Updating RUN_SERVER file...

The RUN_SERVER file has been updated.

Doing pre-upgrade modifications...

Pre-upgrade modifications succeeded.

Restarting Adaptive Server....

Adaptive Server has been restarted.

Running upgrade program...

The upgrade program has completed successfully.

Restarting Adaptive Server....

Adaptive Server has been restarted.

Running installmaster script...

installmaster: 10% complete.

installmaster: 20% complete.

installmaster: 30% complete.

installmaster: 40% complete.

installmaster: 50% complete.

installmaster: 60% complete.

installmaster: 70% complete.

installmaster: 80% complete.

installmaster: 90% complete.

installmaster: 100% complete.

The installmaster script has been successfully installed.

Running installcommit script...

The installcommit script has been successfully installed.

Installing common character sets (Code Page 437, Code Page 850, ISO Latin-1,

Macintosh and HP Roman-8)...

Character sets installed.

Restarting Adaptive Server....

Adaptive Server has been restarted.

Done



6. Log in the server, check the current version with @@version, @@boottime, database/device status.



Post-upgrade tasks:



1. Installing 15x stored procedures after upgrade depending which function is being used on the server.

installsecurity – Run this script if the Adaptive Server Auditing functionality was enabled in your earlier installation.

installhasvss – Run this script if the HA functionality is enabled and the HA feature is currently in use in the upgraded installation of        Adaptive Server.

Installmodel

instmsgs.ebf

Check the installation script version using sp_version by logging in ASE.

2. Compare sp_configure output to see if there is any difference. Verify procedure cache allocation after upgrading. Verify data cache has no change.

3. Make sure license file is used.

save the license files with a .lic file name extension to the SYSAM-2_0/licenses directory of the license server installation.

Modify the variable in .profile for any instances on the same box.

For example:

LM_LICENSE_FILE=servername.lic

If you not having lic file, it will run under grace period of 1 months, you will get same warning in errorlog.

4. Reboot the instance

5. Reenabling auditing if needed.


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