Re: transportable tablespaces on a SAN

  • From: Thomas Day <tomdaytwo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:00:03 -0400

About 8 hours right now.  From your answer it sounds as if the theoretical
answer is "Yes".  Now it's just a matter of working out the details.

I just wanted to know if it was even possible before we started tackling the
"minor" details. (grin)

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  I guess you mean you have two separate servers, and you want to do
> something like export the metadata, drop the tablespace from db 1 (but not
> the datafiles) and then transport db 1 tablespace into db 2? You don’t mean
> keep both tablespaces in both databases using the same datafiles, right?
>
> A lot of details missing here but doesn’t this sound like nothing but
> trouble? How slow can a copy from the same SAN be?
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> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Day
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> *Subject:* transportable tablespaces on a SAN
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> I have two databases, both using the same SAN for their datafiles.
> Assuming that they can both see the same logical drives, can I transport a
> tablespace back and forth by just do the metadata exp/imp?
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> What I'm hoping is that I don't have to copy the datafiles.
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