Re: 9i to 10G on new server -exp/imp the only way?

From: <dongweiwang.cn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:15:17 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <8e66e4d6-f3b7-4276-84df-9e1705a6532a@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>


On 5月30日, 上午11时45分, GS <G..._at_GS.com> wrote:
> I think I answered the question with the title of this post, but it
> leaves me wondering why Oracles upgrade assistant only works if the
> database you are upgrading from is on the same machine. I know MS-SQL is
> a different beast, but it does effortless upgrades from one machine to
> another and the basic premise is the same, except in Oracle you are
> moving many schema's over while MSSQL is moving one schema (database)
>
> Or is there another reason Oracle can't do this? Normally exp/imp is no
> problem as the ones I have done so far are relatively small, but I am
> doing a bigger one now (still small by database standards at 20GB) and
> it is DOG SLOW, 2 hours so far and it's only part way through the first
> of many schemas I am moving over.

You can copy all the old 9i datafiles, controlfiles, redo logs from the old machine to the new one(which 10g installed) and do upgrade. But both OS should be the same. Received on Fri May 30 2008 - 00:15:17 CDT

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