Re: Migrate from 7.2.3 to 8.0 using Migrate Utility or Export/Import

Rob Rebmann wrote:
>
> We plan on migrating from 7.2.3 to 8.0.3 in the next month and have
> approximately 1 month allocated to perform the migration. We have 1
> production and 4 test instances to migrate.
> I would be interested to hear which migration strategy other Oracle
> customers have taken, why and what your experience was.
> We do not plan on exploiting any of the new features supplied with Oracle8
> at this time as we do not feel we can migrate, investigate and implement
> the new features in a one month time frame.
>
> Our environment
> RS6000/J50
> 8 CPUs
> 2 gigs memory
> AIX 4.2
> 33 GB of data
>
> If we choose the Export/Import route we predict an elapsed time of about 36
> hours to complete just the Export/Import. Our largest table consumes
> 330,000 8k blocks.
>
> You can contact me via Email at rob.rebmann_at_londonlife.com

Migrating is the best solution.it is very fast as oracle 8 doesn't need to touch the data but just re-write the tables ...info We have used it and it is working fine.
let me know if u have other questions.
Milan Vora Received on Mon Dec 15 1997 - 00:00:00 CST