15 RMAN Cross-Platform Transportable Databases and Tablespaces

Oracle supports transportable tablespaces, which are used to move the contents of individual tablespaces between databases. It also supports a transportable database feature, which can be used to recreate an entire database from one platform on another platform as long as the platforms have the same endian order.

This chapter discusses the use of RMAN in transporting tablespaces and entire databases between disparate platforms.This chapter contains the following sections:

• Cross-Platform Tranportable Tablespace: CONVERT DATAFILE or TABLESPACE

  A description of how to use RMAN's CONVERT DATAFILE and CONVERT TABLESPACE commands when moving transportable tablespaces across platforms with different endian formats

• Cross-Platform Transportable Database: RMAN CONVERT DATABASE

  A description of how to use RMAN's CONVERT DATABASE command to simplify transporting an entire database to a different platform, which must have the same endian format