Re: 9.2.0.5.0 to 10g AND BACK!

  • From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:24:02 -0500

Niall Litchfield wrote:

>You will need to run 10g with compatible set lower than 10. Once the
>compatability is set at 10 you won't be able to move the datafiles
>back.
>
>  
>
The reason for that is the fact that 10g writes platform information 
into file header, such as
platform name, big Indian or little Indian, how many bits in long 
(32/64) and alike. You can
dump file headers in 9i and 10g and see the difference for yourself.


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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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