RE: Database Upgrade/Migration Dilemma

What makes you think exp/imp won't work? It does work, and it is supported - see Metalink #132904.1. Maybe you're just looking at the fact that exp/imp with FULL=y isn't supported for 8.1.6 -> 10.2, but you can still use imp in USER or TABLE mode, which should work just fine.  

I recently used exp/imp to migrate directly from 8.0.6 to 10.2.0.2.  

Regards,
Brandon

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Rick Weiss          

        We are planning to migrate out production environment from Oracle 8i (8.1.6) on AIX to Oracle 10g (10.2) on Linux. My current plant is to do the data moves (about 150 tables) as CTAS via database links. (are there better options? exp/imp won't go back that far)

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