Re: The Transition from Oracle 6 to 7 - any problems?

From: Robert Hart <rhart_at_wnet.gov.edmonton.ab.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 18:43:24 GMT
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In article <115517968wnr_at_bpchem.demon.co.uk> smithacd_at_bpchem.demon.co.uk (Adrian C D Smith) writes:
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>We upgraded a 3Gb database from 6.0.37 to 7.0.15 on an RS6000, We
>used the migrate utility and it all worked fine took about 4-5hours.
 

>The only thing we had to worry about was the size of the system
>tablespace - I we ended up trebling the size before we could get the
>migrate utility to work !

>Adrian C D Smith

We tried to use the migrate utility on a Novell Oracle server. But OOPS there was a bug and it did not work with large database's. This has been fixed but we haven't tried it

Robert Hart Received on Thu Aug 11 1994 - 20:43:24 CEST

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