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IFS 7 application is running in window 2003 and the Oracle Database is running in AIX power 7.
Now the requirement is to Migrate both above said Setup to Azure Cloud , can you recommend the feasibility options and the Migration methodology with some reference documentation.
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AIX only runs on the IBM POWER architecture, which is big endian. That means in a multibyte representation of a number, the most significant byte comes first.
DEC 256 = HEX 0100
Unless they specify otherwise, all cloud VMs are going to be on the x86/amd64 architecture, which is little endian.
DEC 256 = HEX 0001
This is a huge difference that’s literally wired into the silicon, and it’s a far more significant difference than the change in the operating system itself.
As far as I know, RMAN doesn’t support conversions between different endianness. I believe Data Pump does, with the expdp and impdp commands, but I’ve never made such a conversion myself.
Hi
fully agree with
Cheers.
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You want your new database to be configured in Oracle’s AL32UTF8 character set, which pedantically is a subset of UTF-8.
UTF-8 is not the same as Unicode. Unicode defines a logical number for a particular character but does not specify the bits that represent that number.
Everyone should read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!), written by the now-famous software developer Joel Spolsky, who served as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team, co-founded Stack Overflow, created Trello, and founded Fog Creek Software.
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