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Downgrade of the database failed with ORA-00201: control file version X.0.0.0.0 incompatible with ORACLE version Y.0.0.0 (Doc ID 388604.1)

Last updated on APRIL 05, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After upgrading from Lower version to higher version , if you are downgrading back to the previous release then you might get following errors:

ORA-00201  control file version <num> incompatible  with Oracle version <num>

while executing the steps given in the following documentation:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14238/downgrade.htm#i1010243

Changes

 In this regard upgrade was performed from 9.2 to 10.2

Cause

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Symptoms
Changes
Cause
 How the COMPATIBLE Initialization Parameter Operates
Solution

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