I did the upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.1.5 about a year ago using export/import
as you plan to do. I used version 7.3.4 export and import utilities and had
no problems. I have been doing cleanup ever since, its a living ;)

Dean Jefferson
Database Administrator
State of Wisconsin
Office of Commissioner of Insurance 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:16 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Cleaning up before upgrades / migrations; avoiding upgrade
> proble ms
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are preparing to upgrade our databases here from 7.3.4. to 8.1.6..
> 
> Do you have any suggestions re. re-organization, "cleaning 
> up" before the
> migration is done, or just after it is done, and before I release the
> servers to the developers and end users?  If you have done 
> this type of
> upgrade before, any problems encountered?
> 
> e.g. separating indexes and tables, right now they are all 
> lumped in the
> same tablespace.  Ensuring that extent sizes are appropriate.
> 
> I intend to use export / import to do the transition instead of the
> migration utility.  I am testing that today with a few 
> schemas on NT, will
> test it again later with full exports / imports on Tru64 when 
> we receive our
> new Digital servers.
> 
> TIA
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA)
> Bedford Institute of Oceanography
> Fisheries and Oceans Canada
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Michael Netrusov 
> > Sent:       Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:58 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject:    Re: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby
> > 
> > Yosi, 
> > 
> > Hot standby db protects you from the data corruption. Any kind of
> > mirroring does not - it's just a copy. 
> > 
> > HTH,  
> > Michael Netrusov, 
> > www.atelo.com 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 06:10
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > Can anyone give me a quick (free!) lesson on the concepts
> > > behind timefinder? How does this differ from their standard
> > > SRDF which (to my understanding) is to split the mirror and
> > > back it up.
> > > 
> > > Or is it that they add their BCV stuff to SRDF so you can
> > > access the data while the mirror is split? Then, is it like
> > > a Hot Standby DB?
> > > 
> > > (We used to get something in high school that was some sort
> > > of mixture between fish and potatoes, and we could never
> > > figure out if it was fish or if it was potatoes, or both,
> > > or neither. Somehow, this is reminding me of that.)
> > > 
> > > Thanks loads,
> > > 
> > > Yosi
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