On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:28:56 +0000, Pete Sharman wrote:
> In article <pan.2003.03.10.17.17.20.472759_at_yahoo.com.au>, "Howard says...
>>
>>On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:35:00 +0000, Norman Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>> Morning QT,
>>>
>>> if you are wanting to move Oracle data between two different
>>> servers/operating systems, then you will have to go via exp/imp (unless
>>> RMAN allows you to do it) because of the differing OS features like
>>> big-endian/little endian etc. If you try to do a database clone, then
>>> when you try to startup you'll get a telling off from Oracle and it
>>> won't start.
>>>
>>> I'm not at all familiar with transportable tablespaces, but I suspect
>>> that they won't transport very well between OS - I'll be corrected on
>>> this if I'm worng, but I've never had (to have) anything to do with them
>>> since I did my 9i upgrade course.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Norman.
>>
>>Officially, transportable tablespaces require the same O/S and the same
>>point-and-patch release of Oracle. Whether Tru64 and Solaris count as the
>>same OS (ie "Unix"), I couldn't say. But I seriously doubt it.
>
> Mg Gawd, something I know that Howard isn't sure about!!! :)
There are plenty of other examples, Pete.
Just not many involving Oracle!!
Regards
HJR
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 12:29:57 CST
