Then what does the RMAN "Convert database" command do? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 >>> "Ignizio, Richard" <richard.ignizio@xxxxxxxxxx> 1/12/06 1:14:45 PM >>> When using Transportable tablespaces you cannot export the SYSTEM tablespace(but you can export the undo tablespace): exec sys.dbms_tts.transport_set_check('SYSTEM'); BEGIN sys.dbms_tts.transport_set_check('SYSTEM'); END; * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01001: invalid cursor ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_SQL", line 819 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SQL", line 19 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_TTS", line 789 ORA-29351: can not transport system or temporary tablespace 'SYSTEM' <==========@!!!!!!!!! ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_TTS", line 818 ORA-06512: at line 1 From Metalink note 71473.1: Oracle 9.2 or Earlier Error Message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Error: ORA-29351 Text: can not transport system or temporary tablespace '%s' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cause: The referred tablespace is either the system tablespace or a temporary tablespace. Action: Do not include this tablespace in the transportable set. Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jurijs Velikanovs Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:57 PM To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: migrate database > You cannot transport the SYSTEM tablespace. Therefore, objects such as > sequences, PL/SQL packages, and other objects that depend on the SYSTEM > tablespace are not transported. The statement above not true for the same endian format platforms. You can easily transport SYSTEM tablespace (+UNDO) from Win to Linux for example. However you unable to do that between SPARC Solaris & Linux. J. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l