Is it possible to connect an oracle database of jira 6.4 to jira 7.1 ?

Question

last month our servers encripted because of a virus and we just have a database backup.

latest jira version was 6.4 .now i install  jira software 7.1 and connect it to database. but I have problems in :

1- problem in deleting projects.

2- empty page is shown to have  workflow scheme change request in project administration page

3- error 500 for editing workflow

Mina Khalili Nejad · Answer

I consider your opinion ,

thanks

Mina Khalili Nejad · Answer

yes. I've  just done a direct connection without going through an upgrade.

i have upgraded in a wrong way :|

Thanks for your help.

Andy Heinzer · Answer

Yes you can use an Oracle database with Jira.  However the version of Oracle databases that are supported for Jira changed between 6.4.x and 7.0.0.   You can see the supported platforms in Jira 7.1.x that for Oracle databases, only the 12C database version is supported.   But the 6.4 supported platforms could have used either 11G or 12C versions of Oracle.

If your Oracle database is not a 12C version, then I would recommend that you follow the steps in Switching databases to select a supported platform for the version of Jira you want to use, and then migrate your data there.

It is possible that all the problems you are seeing here could have a single source of a failed upgrade, or an unsupported database being used.