Hi Greg,
Well, there's a distinction between revisions and maintenance revisions. This document and SAP Note 2021789 - SAP HANA Revision and Maintenance Strategy - explains the difference. That's quite important to understand.
Anyhow, if you are in a *maintenance* revision (like 69.01 as you mentioned) then you have a pre-defined path for upgrade (which can be found in the Note as well). In the case of 69.01 :
Current maintenance revision |
Possible target SP or maintenance revisions |
Revision 69.01 | Upgrade to revision 71.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision) |
That means you can upg to rev 83 from rev 69.01. Not you're case though, as rev 72 is not a maintenance revision and there are no registered restrictions.
And yes, you got it right. It should be possible to got to 83 from 33 through 69.07, although I've never seen such a case (I've seen rev 45 -> 69.07 -> 74.04 without issues).
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Lucas de Oliveira