Test of 8.1.7.4->10gr2 upgrade, platform important?

From: Bjørn Dörr Jensen <B.D.Jensen@xxxxxxx>
To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:29:33 +0100

Hello out there! I suppose that it's very important to test an upgrade in an environment similar to production. Lets say production environment is AIX, database-size about 100Gb. Can I (=is it meaningfull) to test upgrade in windows-environment when production is AIX? I guess that you perhaps get problems you not will get in production: spending time on irrelevant problems I guess that I'll not see the relevant problems in test.

Are I'm correct? Is it really a problem, even if both platforms are certified for Oracle? Any experience/links, best/worst practices? What path to use - migrate or exp/imp?

Greetings Bjoern

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