Hi, as mentioned in my last mail, we want to upgrade our old SAP DB 7.4 database systems to MaxDB 7.6.
Our source system is a SAP DB 7.4.3.27, 32 Bit, ASCII. The destination system is a MaxDB 7.6.0.33, 64 Bit and we'd like to run it in Unicode mode. We tried to recover a full backup into the new system. But this wasn't possible because the backup was made with an ASCII instance and we tried to recover it in an Unicode instance. Then we recovered it in an instance, where we defined _UNICODE NO. This worked very well but it was ASCII. And this parameter isn't changeable anymore :-( But I remembered that our SAP systems made this step (convert the catalog from ASCII to Unicode). And then I found the (rather undocumented) function db_migratecatalog, which has to be executed in OFFLINE state. It finished its work and voila: _UNICODE YES. Is this the (secure) way to convert a database or should we use a different strategy? bye Chris phone: +49 6898/10-4987 fax: +49 6898/10-54987 http://www.saarstahl.de -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
