Summary

• In a heterogeneous system copy, the database, or operating system, or both are changed during the system copy process.

• Obtain a migration key before starting the heterogeneous system copy.

• The export phase of the copy will write the DDL statements and create a database dump file.

• The import phase of the copy reads the export dump and loads the data to the target system in a database-independent format.

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