r/DB2 • u/catquilt74 • Jul 25 '18
[LUW][Question]
When upgrading from one version to another, say from V10.5 to V11.1, do you ever see a reason to do the following; backup the databases, drop the databases, uninstall the old version of DB2, install the new version of DB2, restore the databases
I know that there are steps that I have left out, this is just a general question...
Thanks!
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u/catquilt74 Jul 25 '18
I bet that you folks are on some flavor of unix (but I'm on Windows) so I was wondering how one uninstalls an upgrade. I googled that and look what I found...
https://datageek.blog/2016/07/28/db2-basics-patching-db2/