On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Bort, Guillermo <guillermo.bort@xxxxxxx>wrote: > We thought about DBMS_REDEFINITION (or the legacy alter table move), > however that would imply creating new tablespaces, and since the rdbms > server a SAP aplication, creating new tablespaces is a bit of a headache, > and moving objects arround is even worse. So basically we need to have the > same structure on another server, move the tbs to locally and still have the > db synchronized. > > DBMS_REDEF requires converting all LONGS to LOBS, which DBMS_REDEF will do, but that may not be what you want to do. There are some SAP notes on this. ALTER TABLE MOVE will not work with LONG/LONG RAW columns, and as you are a aware, there are a few in SAP systems. Jared