RMAN convert command to migrate Oracle from Big Endian to Little Endian

Want to migrate Oracle from Big Endian to Little Endian? Learn how to do so with the RMAN convert command and Transportable Tablespaces in this expert tip.

Brian Peasland

Published: 29 Jul 2009

How do you migrate a 2TB Oracle 9i from HP-UX (Big Endian) to 10g on Linux (Little Endian)? Can I use RMAN CONVERT DATAFILE / TABLESPACE ? My downtime window is short so I need the fastest way to to do this migration. Can you give me some tips or guide me through the best way?

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big-endian and little-endian Endianness is a term that describes the order in which a sequence of bytes are stored in computer memory. Endianness can be either big or small, with the adjectives referring to which value is stored first.

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