ORA-39700: database must be opened with UPGRADE option

Hi,

Sometimes You can get “ORA-39700: database must be opened with UPGRADE option ” error.

 

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-39700: database must be opened with UPGRADE option

Cause: A normal database open was attempted, but the database has not been upgraded to the current server version.


Action: Use the UPGRADE option when opening the database to run catupgrd.sql (for database upgrade), or to run catalog.sql and catproc.sql (after initial database creation).

SQL> startup;

ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1954160640 bytes
Fixed Size                  2227752 bytes
Variable Size            1325400536 bytes
Database Buffers          620756992 bytes
Redo Buffers                5775360 bytes
Database mounted.
ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced
ORA-00704: bootstrap process failure
ORA-39700: database must be opened with UPGRADE option
Process ID: 22861
Session ID: 1705 Serial number: 5

 

This error is related with the database that was recently upgraded  from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2

 

To solve this error, you should correct the environment variables to point to the correct ORACLE_HOME, PATH ( Oracle 12c ) etc and rerun catupgrd.sql as follows.

 

nohup $ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catctl.pl -d $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin -l /home/oracle/ -n 8 catupgrd.sql &

 

oracle@MehmetSalih ~DEVECI(/home/oracle)$  nohup $ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catctl.pl -d $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin -l /home/oracle/ -n 8 catupgrd.sql &

Argument list for [/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/db_1/rdbms/admin/catctl.pl]
For Oracle internal use only A = 0
Run in c = 0

 

Read the following post to learn detailed how to upgrade any database.

Manual Upgrade Oracle Database From 11.2.0.4 to 12.2.0.1 without DBUA

 

Do you want to learn Oracle Database for Beginners, then read the following articles.

https://ittutorial.org/oracle-database-19c-tutorials-for-beginners/

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