Re: RE: convert big endian to medium endian

From: Ahmed Fikri <gherrami_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 19:26:01 +0100
Message-ID: <CANkb5P1AyZcSFzpYuJszmBWm0D_U-W-wEM903t8KseYZOz=hsQ_at_mail.gmail.com>



I write this email from an other email box(I'm in the train and the other app doesn't work now)

Thanks a lot Lewis not only for your technical explanation but also for reading between the lines and understanding my real problem. (Even my broken English)

Thanks and Regards
Ahmed

Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> schrieb am Fr., 7. Feb. 2020, 19:15:

>
> Your approach will not work because Oracle Corp. has not implemented an
> "in situ" mechanism for reading and updating a system tablespace and data
> dictionary that is in the wrong endian format. If they had produced such a
> mechanism they would have been shouting about it because it would make it
> much easier to migrate to Exadata from any alien platform.
>
> If your dba is an expert then they might have mentioned which version of
> Oracle (11g is not a version, it's a marketing term), and which bug. There
> are many known bugs relating to slow metadata export and many of those bugs
> have patches. If your dba is a really expert expert they may even be able
> to work out WHY the export is slow (if there isn't a patch to fix their
> problem) and hack the data dictionary or supply SQL Patches to speed it up.
>
>
> Regards
> Jonathan Lewis
>
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> Subject: AW: RE: convert big endian to medium endian
>
> thanks for this information. But when I hear the only one way to do
> something, I need to know why there is only one way. And why my approach
> will not work.
>
> My problem is when using XTTS I should (from my understanding) export the
> metadata using datapump and the problem this takes 3 days and 4 hours. And
> from my understanding why should I export the metadata. Our DBA is an
> expert and he told me the export takes long time because of known bug in
> 11g. In the past I could copy databases using only cold backup, I could
> copy the data files in parallel using several processes. I'm not a DBA (I
> am from the application vendor installed on the db) but I read D. Kuhn book
> from the beginning to the end. So I need to understand how to to do this
> task: upgrading 11g on aix to 12g on linux in less than one weekend without
> using the buggy datapump.
>
> this should be possible or not?The db is only 16tb big.
>
> regards
> Ahmed
>
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> --- Original-Nachricht ---
> Von: Clay Jackson (cjackson)
> Betreff: RE: convert big endian to medium endian
> Datum: 07.02.2020, 17:55 Uhr
> An: oracle list
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>
> AFAIK:
>
> The only way this would work would be with transportable tablespaces;
> either using the tablespaces, or RMAN (MOS 2013271.1).
>
> There’s no “silver bullet” for this…
>
>
>
> IMHO, your best choice is export/import with some sort of replication
> solution to help minimize downtime.
>
>
>
> Clay Jackson
>
> Database Solutions Sales Engineer
>
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> office 949-754-1203 mobile 425-802-9603
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> Hi all,
>
> I want to test (I hope this weekend) following:
> 1 from 12c Db on AIX (big endian) I will create a cold backup
> 2 on Oracle linux (medium endian) I will create a new db using the cold
> backup from point 1
> 3 somehow I should convert the files from point 1 in medium endian
>
> is this possible?
>
> I don't want to use XTTTS and exporting the metadata using data pump.
>
> Kind Regards
> Ahmed
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