Hmmm.... Oracle from vax to alpha

Ok Oracle gurus.

I'm about to migrate an entire Oracle 7 system from Vax/VMS 5.4 to Alpha/OpenVMS 6.1. This should be a piece of cake. I'll just recreate the directory structure, and recompile all the pro*c and oracle code.

I'll copy over all the .com files, tweak them and hey presto. Wow! I might be able to do a DECnet copy of the database files themselves.

Now I would be veeeeeeeeeeeery interested in hearing the million pitfalls which must exist in performing such an operation. Surely someone out there has done such a migration, and surely it's not as simple as I have outlined.

My question is .................... what catches are there?

Thanks in advance,
Henry O'Keeffe

All opinions are mine and not my employer's. Received on Mon Jan 16 1995 - 17:00:38 CET