I have heard rumors that the 10g tweak on transportable is to allow you
to move cross-platform. Rumors only, I have NO inside information!
- "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> wrote:
> Humm, That's interesting. Transportable tablespaces were introduced
> in 8i, 9i allowed us to have multiple block sizes at the tablespace
> level for flexibility. But I've not heard that one can transport a
> tablespace/datafile across platforms. What a wonderful way to trash
> all of those Windoze servers out there for Linux!!
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
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> Hi Listers
>
> Saw this on SearchOracle
> What new features are customers excited about in 10G?
> Abramson: What they've done is given you complete flexibility. They
> have
> introduced transportable table spaces, so all you have to do is
> export
> metadata and just copy files across during an upgrade. You don't have
> to
> do a full extraction. I've been in a situation were a company was on
> Sun
> and moving to HP, and they wanted to know how to do it. I told them
> that
> you just unload the database and reload the database. It sounds easy,
> but
> with two terabytes of data it's not unless you have transportable
> table
> spaces.
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is true, that is, the implication that I
> can
> copy a transportable tablespace from Sun to HP or vice versa without
> issue. I suppose then is it big endian - little endian constrained or
> not
>
> Cheers
>
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