Re: Oracle newbie!! - Please help!!
Date: 2000/03/10
Message-ID: <8abau8017h7_at_enews3.newsguy.com>#1/1
"DNP" <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message news:38C6C9D8.3E59_at_btinternet.com...
> Oracle 8i is also know as Oracle version 8.1.5 (6)
>
> 8.0.5 was the version before Oracle 8i (simply, Version 8)
>
> Blame marketing people for the confusion.
>
> Anyway - glad to hear your being asked to do a conversion from SQl
> Server to Oracle. Keep posting here and I for one will help.
>
> First tip - don't assume the migration workbenches will work - they
> don't always.
>
> Second tip - find any excuse to delay the migration and get stuck in to
> the documentation. You have to do this first.
>
> If you don't do the second tip, the best that can happen is that the
> migration goes flawlessly and your new oracle database sings along until
> BOOOM. Then you realise you've no idea what goes / has been going on
> inside it. But its far too late now. You annoy your bosses. You get
> Oracle a bad name in their eyes. You damage your own reputation ... you
> get my point.
>
>
> Maybe it would be appropriate to swallow your pride and get a
> consultant in to do the migration. Also try and get some Oracle
> instruction from an Oracle Education provider (overpriced maybe but the
> manuals cut through SO much of the over-powering detail that you get
> with the Oracle Documentation itself).
>
>
> Ask youself - where do you want to be with this database in 2 years
> time?
>
> Working smoothly with backup procedures in place or staggering from one
> disaster to another as you simultaneously try to just learn what the
> database is doing? You won't have time for both.
>
>
> regards,
>
>
> David P.
>
>
>
> Robert Martin wrote:
> >
> > Please bear with me. I am a complete newbie that has been thrown into the position as a Oracle DBA (lucky me). Anyways, we have
a
> > SQL Server 7.0 database that we need to migrate over to Oracle 8i. We have Oracle 8i version 8.0.5 installed on the same machine
as
> > the SQL Server machine. I tried to download and install the Oracle® Migration Workbench for MS SQL Server 7.0 software in order
to
> > migrate the database. Well, I read most of the release notes and I have to have the 8.1.5 client installed on the machine that I
> > want to install this software on. Do I have to upgrade my Oracle 8.0.5 install to the 8.1.5 install? I have tried to install the
> > 8.1.5 Enterprise Edition software over the 8.0.5 install, but I can't because the release notes state I can't install over a
HOME
> > (whatever the hell a home is - I still don't really understand this concept yet fully) that already exists. So what do I do? Do
I
> > have to uninstall the 8.0.5 software? I am afraid to do this cause I totally screwed up our NT server when I did this before.
Should
> > I just forget the DEFAULT_HOME that exists and install into a new home and completely forget the original home I created with
the
> > 8.0.5 install (which looks like it will waste a lot of disk space if I do this). What do I do!?!?! Any information will be
greatly
> > appreciated. Also, is there content on the net or a good book that will help me as a newbie? I recently got the "Oracle 8i DBA
> > Handbook" from the Oracle Press. Is this good enough?
> >
> > ALSO: Direct responses to my email address listed below will be greatly appreciated too.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Robert Martin (rwmartin_at_sisconet.com)
> > Design Engineer
> > SISCO Inc
Received on Fri Mar 10 2000 - 00:00:00 CET