Re: Moving to 64-bit Oracle on Solaris 5.8

In addition to the FM, some notes on metalink are informative, like 62290.1 and 209766.1

It boils down to:=A0 need to increase a few init.ora parameters, like = the
others said;=A0 numeric variables in memory will be twice as large;=A0 memory address pointers will be twice as large; packages will need to be recompiled; migration will need to be performed if you move the datafiles rather than imp/exp (which may be as simple as running one script, utlirp, which recompiles packages, or you might have to change word size); and data buffer size will not change.

So it is possible in some usages to actually have it slightly slower (having to move larger pointers around), but I don't know that anyone has demonstrated that makes much of a difference. Some fine tuning will be required, but you do that anyways.

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