Re: convert big endian to medium endian

Hi Ahmed!

Your problem is that SYS tables, like OBJ$, TAB$ and COL$ all contain the information using binary numbers which are in the wrong format.  RMAN only converts file and block headers, that's it. No table data gets converted. If it did, it wouldn't be RMAN and the conversion would take forever.  If you want to forgo tablespace import, do schema import over the db link. Data pump utilities are rather fast.  Or you don't have to move to the other endian tribe. The choice is yours.

Regards

On 2/7/20 5:03 PM, Ahmed Fikri wrote:
> sorry to ask again to this topic: why it is not possible to take all
> datafiles from the aix with big endian and convert them using external
> program (maybe a c program or even a dbms_file_transf r from other
> oracle instance) to the target endian and use them to create the new
> DB? This is like creating a new Database using a cold backup only with
> the additional step to convert the datafiles. I'm unfortunately not
> convinced that we should use the TTS methode. I think that using TTS
> is only good if we want to copy only a few TS of the DB. But in my
> case I want to copy the whole DB.
>
> Thanks and regards.
>

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