Upgrade to oracle 9i from oracle 8

Question

hi gurus,
Earlier we have running our database on oracle 8.0.4.
Now we want to upgrade it to Oracle 9i release 1.
Which will be the best way to migrate the data.
Should i take full export of oracle 8 and import it to oracle 9i?
I want to access the data in the same way as earlier.
thank you,

Answer 1

Raghvendra,
If you are still trying on this one, and haven't yet been successful, try out this. Get your 9i database exactly as how it was before you began any of the imports. I mean keeping the SYSTEM tablespace and the other defaults like USERS, TOOLS, TEMP, etc drop all others if they weren't there originally. Next take a good report of the DBA_TABLESPACES table with all vital information like TABLESPACE_NAME, INITIAL_EXTENT, NEXT_EXTENT, MAX_EXTENTS, etc and on the 9i database create the extra ones just as in 8 version. As for the ones already there in 9i like the SYSTEM, change its parameters to facilitate bigger values if required as in 8 version or maybe go with the recommendations as in Oracle documentation for the 9i migration.
Once this is done, why don't you post your import script here so that we can look at it and suggest you furthermore, perhaps?