Re: Recommended way to migrate 8.1.7 -> 9.2

Going from Solaris to Linux, be it also an upgrade of Oracle or not, means using export/import. I'm fairly sure the datafiles on Solaris are not compatible with those on Linux.

Peter

"Rick Denoire" <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> schreef in bericht news:qakgru4b7e0n5b1ouus12r39hj8mim6o92_at_4ax.com...
> Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:
>
>
> >8.1.7 to 9.2 is not a migration ... it is an upgrade. And I can't
> >imagine a more difficult way to approach it other than typing it all in
> >again. Exporting a datbase may sound easy when dealing with a few
> >megabytes. But no one is exporting terabytes.
>
> Well, die DB will go from Solaris 2.7 on a Sun E3500 to a Linux/Dell
> (Intel) platform, as well as from 8.1.7 to 9.2
> Is not that a migration?
>
> >Why not just use the procedure recommended by Oracle and upgrade the
> >database in situ?
>
> Do you mean a parallel installation of the binaries? Does this
> recommended method take care of the environment variables? Which is
> going to be the ORACLE_HOME after this procedure?
>
> Thanks again
> Rick
Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 18:53:12 CDT