Migration Oracle 8i and 9i to 10g

Hello
Thanks in advance.
I would to know if there are problems migrating a data base from Oracle 8i and 9i to 10g?
And how i can realize this process?
Thanks.

Hello Jose,
This forum discusses migration of third party databases [such as sql server, informix, MySQL etc., ] to Oracle. You may want to contact the database group for oracle migrations.
Regards.
Srinivas

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Processes in Instance: PFRD_Inst
--------------------------------------------------------------+---------
ias-component | process-type | pid | status
--------------------------------------------------------------+---------
emagent_PFRD_Inst | EMAGENT | 29078 | Alive
RptSvr_hostname_PFRD_Inst | ReportsServerComp~ | 29075 | Alive
webcache1 | WebCache-admin | 29073 | Alive
webcache1 | WebCache | 29074 | Alive
ohs1 | OHS | 29072 | Alive
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Edited by: 992409 on 02-Apr-2013 09:44

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Thanks,
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Re: How to migrate oracle 9i database to oracle 10g
Posted: Aug 12, 2007 11:17 PM
Hi,
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Username: cane_bill
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Enter insert buffer size (minimum is 8192) 30720>
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PARAMETER                      VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE                   AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY                  AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY                   $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY               AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS         .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET               WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_CALENDAR                   GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT                DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE              AMERICAN
NLS_SORT                       BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT                HH.MI.SSXFF AM
PARAMETER                      VALUE
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT           DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT             HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT        DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY              $
NLS_COMP                       BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET         WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION              8.1.7.0.0
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NLS_LANGUAGE                   AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY                  AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY                   $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY               AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS         .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET               WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_CALENDAR                   GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT                DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE              AMERICAN
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NLS_TIME_FORMAT                HH.MI.SSXFF AM
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NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT        DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
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