Expert Oracle Exadata

C H A P T E R  13

Migrating to Exadata

So the day is finally here. Your Exadata Database Machine is installed, configured, tuned, tweaked and ready to go. By now you’ve probably invested many, many hours learning about Exadata, proving its value to the company, and planning how you will make the most of this powerful database platform. No doubt it has been a long road to travel but you aren’t there quite yet. Now the real work begins—migration.

This was a much more difficult chapter to write than we expected. We can’t count all the migrations we’ve been through over the years. But when we considered all the various versions of Oracle, the migration tools available, and how they have changed from one version to the next, it became clear that ...