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OpenVMS: ORA-401 On Startup Upgrade During Migration to 10gR1 (Doc ID 376323.1)

Last updated on APRIL 16, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.3 to 10.1.0.5 [Release 10.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
HP OpenVMS Alpha

Symptoms

When attempting to perform a manual migration of an 8.1.7.4 database to 10.1.0.3, STARTUP UPGRADE fails:

When compatible = 10.0.0:


      SQL> STARTUP UPGRADE
      ORA-00401: the value for parameter compatible is not supported by this release

When compatible = 8.1.7.4.0:

      SQL> STARTUP UPGRADE
      ORACLE instance started.
      Total System Global Area 247261064 bytes
      Fixed Size 100232 bytes
      Variable Size 226402304 bytes
      Database Buffers 20480000 bytes
      Redo Buffers 278528 bytes
      Database mounted.
      ORA-02288: invalid OPEN mode
      SP2-1500: STARTUP with UPGRADE only valid with Oracle 9.2 or greater

Cause

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