Re: Interesting (painful) Migration Problem (Nov 7.2.2.4.10 -> NT 7.3.3.0.0)

nassif_at_mndsprng.cm wrote:

> hi,
>
> We've got an interesting and painful migration in progress.
>
> We're moving a ~8 Gigabyte 7.2.2.4.10 Database from a Novell 4.11
> server to a 7.3.3.0.0 NT 4.0 Svc Pk 3 server.
>
> Yeah, I know, we're insane.
>
> Anyone got any experience with this?
>
> We have done the following:
> 1) exported the 7.2.2.4.10 DB to a dump file
> (it's about 1.3 G)
> 2) Created a database on the new server
>
> Problems: The import program will try to create sys volumes instead
> of lettered drives, so we can't just import it (plus we need to fix
> some structural issues....)

You could edit your dump file (with TextPad) and alter the datafile locations to full Pathnames (D:\ORANT\DATABASE\INSTSYSTEM01.ORA). Thus your files are created where you want.

Helmut Received on Fri Mar 27 1998 - 00:00:00 CST