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CHAPTER6

Transporting Tablespaces and Databases

In Chapter 5, we discussed how to leverage the features of Recovery Manager (RMAN) to migrate databases in whole or in part between completely different file systems—say, for example, from non-ASM to ASM storage. While that is not an unusual scenario, it is equally common for organizations to migrate between completely different operating system platforms as older hardware is retired or as corporate policies evolve. We have found this to be exceptionally true during the 2014–2015 IT business cycle—what we like to think of as the onset of the Age of Consolidation—as extremely powerful engineered systems ...

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