RE: 10g upgrade survey

Not sure what you mean by #2 - it sounds like an argument for using exp/imp as you have it phrased there.  

If you really care about retaining object creation times, I'd recommend logging them somewhere else than in dba_objects because they can get updated there at unexpected times. You could easily do a "create table object_creation_dates as select owner, object_id, object_name, created from dba_objects" and that would take care of that problem for you.  

Regards,
Brandon

From: GovindanK [mailto:gkatteri_at_fastmail.fm] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:52 AM
To: Allen, Brandon; oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com; Oracle Discussion List Subject: RE: 10g upgrade survey

I see three reasons against going for exp/imp:

1. Minimal downtime
2. System Tablespace / Data Dictionary corrupted but i am able to export all user/data schema
3. I would need to retain the timestamp,create date as per dba_objects

HTH GovindanK

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