Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Moving an 8i Database Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:18:03 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1071252988.748728@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 26 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:250004 Coder wrote: > Hi, I've worked with Oracle a bit, but am still very much a newbie. > > I'm planning the move of a production database system from an old server > running Windows 2000 SP2 to a new one also running Windows 2000, but with > SP4 and all other updates. > > The current server is running Oracle 8i and another application on top of > it. The entire database is about 11GB. > > From my research it looks like there are several ways to move this database > over to the new server. What do you think is the best way to do the move it? > I need to get an identical configuration on the new server. > > Thanks!! Transportable tablespaces. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)