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Control file incompatibility when transferring a database

edited Dec 21, 2010 7:30PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered ✓
 I want to transfer a database from one machine to another by copying all of the database files. The original database was 10.2.0.2.0. I have installed 10.2.0.1 on the new machine with a default database, then applied a patch to 10.2.0.2.

Everything seems to be OK, sqlplus reports the correct version when I connect to the instance.

Then I shutdown the database with

shutdown immediate

and exchange the files (including control and log files) with the files from the old database and start the instance only:

startup nomount

Because the paths to the database files were different in the old database, I need to recreate the control files and get the following message:

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