Re: Migrating to Oracle 8 on AIX

From: Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:54:07 -0700
Message-ID: <3745111F.54590907@us.oracle.com>

Doug

It ain't necessarily so, as the song says. I have no idea if you will be able to actually start the database, but the approach I like to take with the migration is export anyway. It gives you the chance to defragment if necessary, resolve any migrated row problems etc. etc. My 2c worth.

Pete

Doug Cowles wrote:

> We have Oracle 7.3.3 on AIX 4.2. As I understand it, Oracle 8.0.5
> requires AIX 4.3 at
> a minimum, but Oracle 7.3.3 isn't certified on 4.3. Is this going to be
> a problem? The
> plan of attack is, upgrade the OS, then upgrade the database on the
> theory that 7.3.3
> may not be certified for operation, but it will still come up to be
> moved up to Oracle 8.0.5.
> This ok?
>
> - Dc.

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Regards

Pete

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