Re: Fastest way to move a Database from one Computer to another

On 26-Jan-98 12:41:39 frank shams wrote:

>Hi Folks,
 

>I have a problem which somebody of you might be able to solve:
 

>In our company we want to replace our Novell Server (where one Oracle
>instance resides) with a faster one. The problem we encounter is that
>the
>that the instance which is currently running uses a characterset which
>should be replaced on the new server. I know that simple file copying
>doesn´t work
>What is the fastest way to move the Database from the old server to the
>new server with a new characterset?
>Thanks in advance for your reply....

I would guess exporting and importing should work. If you have a lot of indexes this is not very fast, though ;-)

If you do an export, you should not use the direct path export because then there will be trouble with the character set. For normal exports there should not be a problem.

>Ulrich

Hope that helps,
Lothar

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