Cross-endian Oracle migration – moving user data – part II
In my previous post I shared some findings on migrating user and application data between platforms with different endianness, focusing on problems with reducing downtime. Today I’ll talk more about the complexity of chosen method. It’s not only about complexity per se, it’s rather about…
Cross-endian Oracle migration – moving user data – part I
One can find a lot of sources and materials regarding migrating Oracle databases between platforms having different endianness, even though the choice of possible methods is limited in this case. On paper (slides?) everything looks fine, but then you hit bugs or environment-specific problems. Moreover,…