RE: Database Migration to new Platform

a.) In computing, endian and endianness refer to conventional orderings of components (not only of integer bytes) as stored in memory or sent on a serial connection. Each component has a degree of significance, like the place value of digits in positional notation. ***The most common cases refer to how bytes are ordered within a data item, and endianness is then the same as byte order. A big-endian machine stores the most significant byte first-at the lowest byte address-while a little-endian machine stores the least significant byte first.*** (From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness emphasis mine)

b.) Oracle specifically addresses the issue of moving from one Endian to another and the issues of doing it with the datafiles: How to Migrate to different Endian Platform Using Transportable Tablespaces With RMAN [ID 371556.1] 10g+: Transportable Tablespaces Across Different Platforms [ID 243304.1] (several others)

Chris

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Lange, Kevin G Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 2:39 PM
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Subject: RE: Database Migration to new Platform

Does the "Endian" value of the OS mater if the database storage is actually on an external Netapp or Hitachi file system ? I have been meaning to ask this question out here for a couple weeks now.

Kevin

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