Re: HELP! Migrate Oracle6->7 plus Solaris1->2

In article <3q5r7b$3hm_at_kiki.icd.teradyne.com>, torkko_at_std.teradyne.com (Bonnie Torkko) writes:

[ regarding migrating an Oracle databse from SunOS and Oracle6 to   Solaris and Oracle7 ]

> with the Migration Guide). I've got a call into oracle support but
> I don't think they have the complete plan documented either. This is
> their help so far (harder than it sounds; it hasn't worked yet for me):
 

> 1. on sun-os install 7.1.4 for sun-os and migrate the 6.0.33 database
> 2. then install solaris on the machine and install 7.1.4 for solaris
> 3. and start the database.

 I have a similar situation, and it's hard to believe that there's no  provision for going from one version of Oracle and SunOS to the next  version of Oracle and Solaris; you'd think that this is a common  upgrade.

 We're going from 7.0.15 on SunOS to 7.1.4 on Solaris on a different  machine. The manual basically says "you can't get there from here"!

 I'm real close to dumping my entire database to ASCII for the transfer.  Anybody got a better plan -- one that's already worked?

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