
Maximum Availability Architecture
Platform Migration Using Transportable Tablespaces
Oracle Database 11g Release 1
INTRODUCTION
Efficient and reliable methods of performing database maintenance—such as by
migrating a database to a new platform—have existed for many Oracle software
versions. However, as maintenance windows continue to shrink and database sizes
continue to grow, the importance placed on the time required to migrate a database
to a more reliable or cost-effective platform has grown considerably.
Platform migration is the process of moving a database from one operating
system platform to a different operating system platform. The supported way to
accomplish this in prior releases of the Oracle database was to export the data from
the database on the old platform, create a new database on the new platform, and
import the data into the new database. This process can take a number of days for
a very large database. Oracle Database provides two additional methods of
migrating a database to a new platform. Oracle Database 10g Release 2 introduced
Transportable Database (TDB), which reduces the amount of time and effort
required to migrate a database between platforms that share the same endian
format (byte ordering). Oracle Database 10g Release 1 introduced cross-platform
transportable tablespaces (XTTS), which allows datafiles to be moved between
platforms of different endian format.
XTTS is an enhancement to the transportable tablespaces (TTS) feature introduced
in Oracle8i. TTS was originally released as a method to move a subset of one
database into another, such as plugging parts of an OLTP database into a data
warehouse on the same platform. With the cross-platform enhancement, XTTS
can plug datafiles into a database on a different platform, including those that are
using a different endian format. XTTS may reduce platform migration time by
moving all user tablespaces from a source database to an empty target database
running on a platform that uses a different endian format. With the XTTS feature,
tablespace datafiles are plugged into the empty target database by copying the
datafiles to the target database, converting them to the target system endian format,
and then importing the object metadata into the target database.
This white paper explains how to use the cross-platform transportable tablespaces
feature in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 to migrate a database to a new platform
that is using an endian format that is different from the source database platform.
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