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Move a DB to a New Box

edited Apr 15, 2009 8:06PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 6 commentsAnswered ✓
Hi Guys,

I'm planning to move a database (10g standard edition) to a new box with exactly the same OS version, buth Oracle edition is different 10g enterprise. Is it okay to just copy whole database (the datafiles, control files, and online redo log files, and the spfile) to the new box after installing the Oracle RDBMS software? The size of the database is more than 200GB so I'm not considering expdp/impdp from my options. My other option is to make use of RMAN; this I've already tested and it worked. I just thought that by moving the database files from one box to another is more straightforward, but I have some doubts 'coz I've read an article that you can only use this option if the OS

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